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Please help me ID this fish I posted 2 pics of yesterday. I had thought it was a lake trout b/c it does not have the "worm like" markings of a tiger trout on the top of the back, which my fishing encyclopedia shows for splake. However I have seen a few fish pics online of a very similar looking fish called a splake. The fish was taken from the Kenora,ON region so I believe it is too far south to be an arctic char...let me know your thoughts. Thanks.
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Here are the links:
http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/trophyroom/recent/single?pnid=10014...
http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/trophyroom/recent/single?pnid=10014...
it looks like a brown trout from what i can tell from the picture
Splake. It is not a great picture, but here is a good ID reference.
http://dnr.wi.gov/fish/lakesup/ltspcbt_id.html
Look at the photo closely MNHunter. It's a laker for sure. You can always tell by the split tail. Splake have the shovel tail of specks. Lakers crossed with speckled trout (eastern brook) produces the sterile "splake". This is definitely NOT a brown trout! And not a tiger trout which is a cross between brown and speckle. As far as I know the only browns found in NW Ontario are in the Arrow River and they are VERY hard to catch.
Doink! Wrong again! It's a splake. The orange fins wih white leaders is the give away. That's the speck characteristic given to splake. What is interesting to learn in all this is that they can cross-breed a trout (brown) with a char (eastern brook) to create tiger trout. I didn't know that. I did know that they were crossing trout (cutthroat) with salmon (rainbow). And, yes, several years back the rainbow was reclassified as a pacific salmon. The Atlantic salmon, on the oher hand, is a true trout, not a salmon. One would think that they would have some luck crossing Atlantic salmon and browns but as far as I know it's not been acoomplished.
Thanks MNHunter, that's a good link. As I said my fishing encyclopedia or whatever shows the top of the back of a splake having the worm like markings of a tiger trout. The one in your link clearly does not. I think you are correct.
And sorry about the pics, you can blame me for pawing it in the first one. The second one I blame the old man for; I tell him I want a close up for identification and this is what he gets...
Nuclear: I was referring to the image on my link a not being great (it was a little out of focus if you ask me).
Ah, well the link is great. If that's is for sure a splake, which I believe, one would have to guess mine is as well. It was quite a toss up out there on the ice. In the end it doesn't really matter: awesome experience and tasted great no matter what it was. I really just wanted to know for future expeditions. I am aware that the MNR has stocked splake in the area but no one I know really knows/remembers which ones. Now that I'm quite sure that one has the splake, I believe we will have to make another visit
that is a splake as a few said before the white markings and lakers are tad darker the dots on the side give away.
Splake!
Ontario, confusing, isn't it? What's a trout, and what's a salmon anymore? Cutthroat (and Golden Trout) are also of the genus Oncorhynchus, same as Rainbows and Pacific Salmon. The Cutbow hybrid occurs naturally in the wild where the two co-exist, as does the Tiger trout. That one I find amazing as the Brook trout are technically a char, the Brown is of the salmo genus. Still waiting to catch my first tiger trout, BTW.
Looks like a splake to me.
Another visual reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splake
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Doink! Wrong again! It's a splake. The orange fins wih white leaders is the give away. That's the speck characteristic given to splake. What is interesting to learn in all this is that they can cross-breed a trout (brown) with a char (eastern brook) to create tiger trout. I didn't know that. I did know that they were crossing trout (cutthroat) with salmon (rainbow). And, yes, several years back the rainbow was reclassified as a pacific salmon. The Atlantic salmon, on the oher hand, is a true trout, not a salmon. One would think that they would have some luck crossing Atlantic salmon and browns but as far as I know it's not been acoomplished.
it looks like a brown trout from what i can tell from the picture
Splake. It is not a great picture, but here is a good ID reference.
http://dnr.wi.gov/fish/lakesup/ltspcbt_id.html
Look at the photo closely MNHunter. It's a laker for sure. You can always tell by the split tail. Splake have the shovel tail of specks. Lakers crossed with speckled trout (eastern brook) produces the sterile "splake". This is definitely NOT a brown trout! And not a tiger trout which is a cross between brown and speckle. As far as I know the only browns found in NW Ontario are in the Arrow River and they are VERY hard to catch.
Thanks MNHunter, that's a good link. As I said my fishing encyclopedia or whatever shows the top of the back of a splake having the worm like markings of a tiger trout. The one in your link clearly does not. I think you are correct.
And sorry about the pics, you can blame me for pawing it in the first one. The second one I blame the old man for; I tell him I want a close up for identification and this is what he gets...
Nuclear: I was referring to the image on my link a not being great (it was a little out of focus if you ask me).
Ah, well the link is great. If that's is for sure a splake, which I believe, one would have to guess mine is as well. It was quite a toss up out there on the ice. In the end it doesn't really matter: awesome experience and tasted great no matter what it was. I really just wanted to know for future expeditions. I am aware that the MNR has stocked splake in the area but no one I know really knows/remembers which ones. Now that I'm quite sure that one has the splake, I believe we will have to make another visit
Here are the links:
http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/trophyroom/recent/single?pnid=10014...
http://www.fieldandstream.com/photos/trophyroom/recent/single?pnid=10014...
that is a splake as a few said before the white markings and lakers are tad darker the dots on the side give away.
Splake!
Ontario, confusing, isn't it? What's a trout, and what's a salmon anymore? Cutthroat (and Golden Trout) are also of the genus Oncorhynchus, same as Rainbows and Pacific Salmon. The Cutbow hybrid occurs naturally in the wild where the two co-exist, as does the Tiger trout. That one I find amazing as the Brook trout are technically a char, the Brown is of the salmo genus. Still waiting to catch my first tiger trout, BTW.
Looks like a splake to me.
Another visual reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splake
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