Lightning trout

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[cool][#0000ff]Happens every time. Somebody posts a fish picture and everybody has to become an instant authority. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The group that developed the "lightning" trout could have named it the "Sick Looking Pale Trout". But they didn't. They are in business to sell fish to private lakes, etc., so they gave it a snappy name. Could have called it the albino trout. But they didn't. Not a true albino anyway. it's all about marketing. "Hot" names sell more fish. Wimpy names don't.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There are several varieties of "golden rainbows" pruduced in different hatcheries around the country. They are mostly the result of genetic engineering to get the desired shade of orange, or pink or whatever. It is doubtful that any of those strains produced independently are exactly the same, but they have similar appearances and they all start with pure strain rainbows...or at least purchased brood stock from one of the other funky hatcheries. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]So, all of you are not wrong and all of you are not right. The fish is what it is and it doesn't matter if it looks something like the fish we catch in Utah and call them something else.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I am editing in three pics from a BFT tuber in Oregon who fishes for the "golden rainbows" they stock in some of the lakes over there.[/#0000ff]

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