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i made a trip east friday with a new friend that that i was introduced to by one of my regular fishing partners. we met in morgan between 430 and 5 hoping to be on the ice at steineker by 8. didn't quite work by the time we got to coalville it was snowing pretty good and slowed our progress. we made it just passed strawberry in time to see a car coming the other way slide off the road and roll. we stopped and helped the young lady out of her car she was unharmed but pretty shook up. we loaded her up with us and headed toward duchene to get phone service and make the needed phone calls her sister was to meet us at the gas station but she wasn't there and we couldn't get ahold of her again so we took her to her house. we finally got on the ice at the crack of 10 the first couple holes were silent. on about the fourth try we got into some fish iced some nice bows the largest going 17 in. then i struck gold my first golden trout alot cooler than a golden bonefish it took a couple hours and we had our limit. headed for pelican not so lucky there covered alot of ice and couldn't get a bite my first skunk on pelican[frown] but all in all a great day on the ice and we even saw the sun in vernal i think that has been missing for a while.
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Is that fish golden or just an albino? either way nice looking fish, good on ya nice catch!! I hope that chick in the car is allright nothing that was not apparent on the outside. [:/] nice job, you very well may have been the difference in life or death for her. [cool] very cool.
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I think that's an albino but not positive. I've caught some golden's before flyfishing the highcountry and that's not really close to what they look like, but great catch's anyway! That's great that you were the good samaritan for that girl, hope somebody would do the same for me!
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I am going to say, if it doesn't have the red eyes and more of a golden color, it is a Palamino.



They are in Utah.

The GOLDEN I have caught have more color with a gold belly.
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Sounds like a crazy day!! Dont mean to burst the old but that is a utah albino trout. There are only a few places in Utah that still have golden trout. Peope think that albinos are golden trout because yes the color of albinos is "golden" but true goldens arent really golden at all. Here is a pic of a golden from utah, you wont see much over this size!

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you shoul have come over where we were fishing on Pelican we iced over 55 bluegills and 1 bass check out the thread called pelican party oh and we fished from 11 to 1 was all
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The trout in question are white rainbows (not albino or golden. ) They were stocked earlier this year and there was a story on them on the DWR website , as well as the news
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we probaly got there as you were leaving we headed out from the east end and fished between the road and the island
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missed that report they are still a beautiful fish whatever they are called[]
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http://wildlife.utah.gov/dwr/newsflash/4...naker.html

Quote:It's just an unusual genetic variation that's sometimes found in rainbow trout. DWR hatchery managers have managed to isolate some of the fish. Now the fish are being bred and raised in Utah's fish hatcheries.

They're albinos.
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Fishrmn,

Your post says they are albinos. No offense but the link you supplied says otherwise. The article in your link says "white rainbows" just like the posts above say. I don't understand what your intentions are here or whether you are .

FR
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al·bi·no  [url "http://dictionary.reference.com/audio.html/lunaWAV/A02/A0273000"][/url] /ælˈbaɪnoʊ or, especially Brit., -ˈbi-/ [url "http://dictionary.reference.com/help/luna/IPA_pron_key.html"][/url] Show Spelled[/url][al-bahy-noh or, especially Brit., -bee-] [url "http://dictionary.reference.com/help/luna/Spell_pron_key.html"][/url] Show IPA[/url]
–noun,plural-nos.
1.
a person with pale skin, light hair, pinkish eyes, and visual abnormalities resulting from a hereditary inability to producethe pigment melanin.
2.
an animal or plant with a marked deficiency in pigmentation.

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Origin:
1770–80; < Pg, equiv. to alb(o) white (< L albus) + -ino [url "http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/-ine"]-ine[/url]1

Albino means white...........from the Latin "albus" Pays to know your word origins.

The article states that they are the same as those stocked along Mirror Lake Hwy and through the Uintas, which we have called albinos for many years....
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Yes definately an albino rainbow.

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My intentions are to quell misinformation. They are not golden trout. Nor are they some rare breed of "white" trout. They are, as the story in the link noted, a genetic variation of a rainbow trout. It is an albino.

Albinism occurs in many species. It is not unique to trout in general or rainbow trout in particular.

If the UDWR wants to call them white rainbows they are welcome to do so. It doesn't change the fact that they are albinos.
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I don't really have anything to add, as it appears it's all been clarified- many times over. But I do like to take advantage of every opportunity to share one of my most treasured (no pun intended) catches ever!

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Go fish Mirror Lake in the summer. You are likely to catch many Albino Trout. I know they have been in there for at least 18 years. 18 years ago was when I caught my first Albino out of Mirror.
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Fishrmn,

My mistake. There have been several folks jump in here to "quell the misinformation". One of them even has a name "albinotrout". Pretty tough to argue with someone named after the beasts. I just had a hard time swallowing your guidance when your reference did not back your statement. Also interesting that some of us use the fact that we called something by a certain name for years as proof that they are one. I am no biologist like the rest of you but did shoot a white rooster pheasant years ago. That is when I learned about the difference between albino and mutant color variations. One is the total lack of pigment (albino) that happens very rarely. The other is simply a color variation (like white fox of the red fox specie). The ones with no color pigment - or albinos are easy to tell because they are absolutely white and have pink eyes. I will paste a reference I found on a similar forum below. At any rate, you folks are going to call them albinos and you are welcome to it.....

"True albino fish have pink eyes, although there is a white strain of rainbow trout that biologists have developed that is a genetic mutation instead of albino. All these fish come from 1 mutant fish that was found, interesting story. These fish are commonly stocked at least in the west, but are not albinos."

FR
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I've been catching pink eyed, albino rainbows in Utah for 36 years. They were probably planted before then, but that is when I can remember a specific time, place, number and reason. I was earning a few bucks by babysitting a cousin's kid. Took him fishing at Deer Creek and caught two albinos about 18 or 19 inches long. They were caught on caterpillars. I used to like to go by the UDWR fish hatchery in Midway and look at all of the raceways full of them. Ain't nothin' new.
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Quote:STEINAKER RES Uintah RAINBOW 200 8.41" 05/19/2009

STEINAKER RES Uintah RAINBOW ALBINO 1313 11.91" 09/08/2009

STEINAKER RES Uintah RAINBOW ALBINO 1350 11.91" 09/08/2009

STEINAKER RES Uintah RAINBOW ALBINO 1200 11.91" 09/08/2009

STEINAKER RES Uintah RAINBOW ALBINO 1425 11.91" 09/08/2009

STEINAKER RES Uintah RAINBOW ALBINO 6786 6.46" 10/21/2009

STEINAKER RES Uintah RAINBOW ALBINO 1040 12.49" 10/27/2009

STEINAKER RES Uintah RAINBOW ALBINO 540 12.49" 10/27/2009

STEINAKER RES Uintah RAINBOW ALBINO 10452 6.93" 10/27/2009

STEINAKER RES Uintah RAINBOW ALBINO 2080 12.49" 10/27/2009

That's copied from the UDWR website listing of their 2009 stocking report. That's about 26,000 albino rainbows planted in Sept. and Oct. I would guess if they were planting something else, they would call them something else.
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[]albino not golden nice fish[fishin]
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