Help solve the argument
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Help solve the argument
What type of trout is this
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Bodofish
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Rainbow and a fat one at that.
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Where was it caught? Could be a steelhead, chinook, possibly a beardslee trout for lake Crescent?
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Rainbow, steelhead, same thing, down to the DNA. Shape of the anal fin precludes it from being anything but a trout.
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Rainbow trout, just a chromie one.
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I'm with Bodo on this one. With all the hybridization going on at the hatchery and in the wild it can get a little confusing. The spotting on a rainbow is different than that of a cutt. On our searun cutts, the spots are actually hollow dots or open c's, have a look at some of the posts from lake Washington. Also, the mouth on a cutt is much bigger than those on a true rainbow with the lower jaw extending well past the eye. You can also check for basibranchial teeth, however not all cutts have them and some rainbows do so it isn't an absolute indicator.
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Gringo Pescador
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Naw - that's just a little rod/reelToni wrote:Big
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He caught it in lake Cresent
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Which one, hopefully not Lake Crescent in Clallam County.
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Doesn't look like a beardsley, but it could be. That is a fantastic place to fish. Hope to catch a beardsley the next time I am there. I caught a cutt there and an employee working there told me it was a beardsley so I am as confused as you, lol. I can't make a good guess.
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That's a nice rainbow. I was going to go with big, but Toni beat me to it. 
Chromy cutts can look like rainbows too sometimes, it can be hard to tell the difference.
Chromy cutts can look like rainbows too sometimes, it can be hard to tell the difference.Re: Help solve the argument
If it was caught in Lake Crescent in Clallam County it is a Beardslee or Blue Back form of the Rainbow Trout. They are endemic to that lake and only that lake.Stegalaw wrote:He caught it in lake Cresent