I took my boys for a overnighter on a river I used to fish with my dad. Other then being wet, it rained all night and all day ( a week ago) we had a great time and I caught my first golden trout. 42 years for my first wow. Now I need to get back to catch another..
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What are golden trout? Are u guys talking about albino trout? I've never heard of golden trout. It looks like a weird rainbow.
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[quote kidsnme]I took my boys for a overnighter on a river I used to fish with my dad. Other then being wet, it rained all night and all day ( a week ago) we had a great time and I caught my first golden trout. 42 years for my first wow. Now I need to get back to catch another..[/quote]Not to be a killjoy, but I believe you have a wild rainbow there. sorry.
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Yeah a few to many spots for a cutthroat.
Great looking fish though.
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No not Albino, not Palamino, Golden. Nice little diamonds down the side.
The one in the picture is a little pale, but the diamonds are there.
Albino's are genetic I believe.
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I think it has too many spots to be a golden also. It looks like a rainbow w/ parr markings. Golden usually have a more yellow-ish color to them.
(I still haven't caught one either.)
Matt
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I'm pretty sure its a golden. It has the par marks or diamonds on the side and white tip on the anal fin. This is out of the river and may not have all the color but it is a golden.
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That's a rainbow. Those are parr marks on the side. My first attachment is a rainbow from a stream that only has rainbow both stocked and wild reproducing ones. The second attachment is the typical golden in Utah.
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I've caught hundreds of bows this year alone with white tip anal fins.
Here's a few more in case it's not showing up well in that last pic.
The last one also has parr marks. Again only rainbows in this low elevation stream.
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I just got my first too but didnt take 42 years thank goodness [
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Fool's gold. Sorry man.[pirate]
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I've misidentified a fish or two as well in my day. I think you may have come down with a case of golden fever. It somehow turns any random planter bow with parr markings into a golden.
It's a nice fish though. Good catch. Maybe sharing which river it came from could help clarify the situation?
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Rock creek in the unitas
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I think that's a wild rainbow, but I'm not a biologist. Great day of fishing either way.
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Sorry but that's totally a bow. I catch those type of patter and color bows in little cotton wood and af canyon. Not a gold trout.
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Sorry, not a golden. The white tipped fins would help to ID a golden vs a cutthroat, but rainbows have white tipped fins as well, only gray fins, usually (some get a bit of color).
Those young rainbow will always have parr marks. Goldens wouldn't have that tight of speckling either, especially up toward the head.
Rainbow trout. I've caught hundreds of rainbows just like that.
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Fools Gold... that was funny!
There are so many variations to so many fish, but definitely a rainbow in this case.
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[quote brookieguy1][quote kidsnme]I took my boys for a overnighter on a river I used to fish with my dad. Other then being wet, it rained all night and all day ( a week ago) we had a great time and I caught my first golden trout. 42 years for my first wow. Now I need to get back to catch another..[/quote]Not to be a killjoy, but I believe you have a wild rainbow there. sorry.[/quote]
What about this fish tells you it's a wild bow? I guess having all its fins intact would be the first clue but what else is it? I've never known. I just assume that the bows I catch are all sterile planters.
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[quote riverdog] My first attachment is a rainbow [/quote]
Looks a lot like a black lab.
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