Upper Provo River Question

[whatyausin]

My step-son and I fished the upper Provo near Camper World yesterday and caught a number of whitefish, brown, cutthroat and one trout species I had never caught before and it wasn't a Brook or Rainbow. Of course the one time I left my camera behind is when I needed it most. What other trout species are in the upper Provo? Forgot to mention, the fly of the day was a bead head prince nymph.
[signature]

[riverdog]

You named them all except maybe a cuttbow hybrid which I've never seen in there. I description might help. The is tremendous variation in appearance in a trout species. I think the browns in their have the most variation with in number of spots and their color and especially colors/ halo of spots.
[signature]

[whatyausin]

I looked at cut-bow hybrid pictures and the trout I caught did not look like that. On it's side it had dark patches and the first thing that came to mind was a tiger trout. In searching the internet I did not see any tiger trout species listed for the upper Provo but then again maybe I didn't look at the correct website. Thanks for your input.

Johnny
[signature]

[riverdog]

Probable was a tiger trout. I don't thing they stock the river directly but a lot of the lakes in the Provo River drainage do get them. Probable got washed into the river at some point. No reason it couldn't make it 30 miles downstream to where you caught it.
[signature]

[gstott]

I caught a couple of tiger trout near Soapstone last summer. I'm sure plenty of fish make it down from the lakes.

[inline "tiger 2 small.JPG"]
[inline "tiger small.JPG"]
[signature]

[whatyausin]

That looks like the fish I caught, so it was a Tiger Trout after all. Sweet !!
Thanks to all for the feedback.

Johnny
[signature]