whats the difference in these two trout?

[Kype]

i was going through my fishing pictures and saw these two what i though were both brown trout. one definitely is but whats the difference between the other one?  

 

 

[Kype]

both were caught in march at the ken lockwood gorge. date on camera is always off

Edited October 26, 2015 by Kype

[mikejd]

The one on the bottom is a Tiger trout. Pretty rare. great catch right there. Its actually the hybrid of a brown trout and a brook trout. They can not reproduce.

Edited October 26, 2015 by mikejd

[rgw]

yup I agree tiger trout

[Kype]

i was hoping thats what it was. i was googling it, but just wasnt 100% sure. thats awesome! maybe ill get a repo mount done. 

[Kype]

maybe bucksnbows can chime in. how rare is a tiger trout. like i said i caught it in the ken lockwood gorge. how rare are we talking about for new jersey waters?

Edited October 26, 2015 by Kype

[GhostBear]

2 years ago I got into about 20 fish that looked like the bottom one, all in the Flattbrook and all in one pool.

[GhostBear]

Just googled tiger trout, sorry to say but that is not a tiger trout, maybe just a Wierd brownie, google it and you'll see, I don't know how to post a link.

[Kype]

yeah i googled it and thats why i posted a thread here because i wasnt 100% sure. some pictures look like what i caught and some look completely different. if you look at my 2nd picture. the front of the fish has the spots of a brown but the tail end has the swirls and lines of a tiger trout. i dont know. could be too the pictures on google are pictures of tiger trout in other parts of the country? where as a NJ/eastern tiger trout looks different. 

Edited October 27, 2015 by Kype

[GhostBear]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TigerTrout3.jpg These if this works ar tigers, the stripes go all the way to the head, I've caught fish like yours, always thought they were just Wierd looking Browns. In a true hybrid you should be able to see both parents, considering it's a male brookie to female brown cross. Edited October 27, 2015 by GhostBear

[Kype]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TigerTrout3.jpg These if this works ar tigers, the stripes go all the way to the head, I've caught fish like yours, always thought they were just Wierd looking Browns.

yeah i have to agree. that was my first impression as well. when i caught it, i thought i caught an odd looking brown trout. 

Edited October 27, 2015 by Kype

[GhostBear]

The hole I fished in the Flattbrook a few years back was loaded with them, I caught and released like 20 one day, every one of them looked like that one.

[mikejd]

That is definetly a tiger trout. Not even a doubt about it. They can look a dozen different ways. I believe if the female brown and a male brookie will look different then the oposite.

Edited October 27, 2015 by mikejd

[Bucksnbows]

First one is 100% a wild brown trout.  Second one is 100% stocked from the Musky Trout Hatchery via the Shannon's Fly Shop private stockings.  While it has some traits that make it look a bit like a tiger, it is one of Vern's browns and is stocked.  His brown trout have some of those genetics we see in this fish that look a bit like vermiculations seen in native brook trout and which are common in tiger trout.  True tigers spawned in the wild are fairly rare and do happen naturally in the South Branch where you caught it because that river sees natural reproduction of all three species which is also very rare in NJ.  But stocked tigers are highly common as it is easy to raise them by taking eggs from one species and milt from the other (brown trout and brook trout, only one of which is a true trout - the brown) and then adding heat to bring up viability of the fertilized eggs.  

 

Sorry, trout geek here    

[mikejd]

First one is 100% a wild brown trout.  Second one is 100% stocked from the Musky Trout Hatchery via the Shannon's Fly Shop private stockings.  While it has some traits that make it look a bit like a tiger, it is one of Vern's browns and is stocked.  His brown trout have some of those genetics we see in this fish that look a bit like vermiculations seen in native brook trout and which are common in tiger trout.  True tigers spawned in the wild are fairly rare and do happen naturally in the South Branch where you caught it because that river sees natural reproduction of all three species which is also very rare in NJ.  But stocked tigers are highly common as it is easy to raise them by taking eggs from one species and milt from the other (brown trout and brook trout, only one of which is a true trout - the brown) and then adding heat to bring up viability of the fertilized eggs.  

 

Sorry, trout geek here    

Well thanks for that info. Something I was not aware of. Very cool info.I would have bet that was a south branch Tiger.