Crowley F.A.T.I.T Tourney

[gvanzant]

Hi JapanRon: The fish and Game have a brochure about all the hybrids they are involved with. The lightning trout is a hybrid developed by the Mt. Shasta Fish Hatchery and has no affiliation with the Fish and Game. I was lucky to attend the Santa Ana River Lakes first introduction of these beauties. We heard a lecture about how they developed them. In a nutshell lighting trout are rainbows. When a female lays her eggs thousands of them are squirted out. About one in a thousand is a resessive gold color. They find two resessive types of different gender and mate them. It's a long process but they end up with all gold trout because two resessives make a dominant gene. Weird huh!

When you fish Crowley you will catch 5 different strains. The one I like best is the Eagle Lake cuttthroat.
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