most liked trout species

[smallieFanatic 0]

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari...-8&oe=UTF-8

 

Must not be too bad. No want of Carp recipes.

[troutguy 0]

Brown trout, very large Brown Trout on flies in the dark of night.

[BunnyBuster 0]

Sea run coastal cutthroat. :thumbsup:

[fishinbub 0]

although, aren't brook trout actually a species of char?

 

If you want to get technical rainbows, cutts, brookies, lake trout, blueback trout, bull trout, etc. are not actually trout. Just brownies.

 

Brookies by far. Finding them is half the fun...

[smallieFanatic 0]

If you want to get technical rainbows, cutts, brookies, lake trout, blueback trout, bull trout, etc. are not actually trout. Just brownies.

 

Actually Cutthroats, Rainbow Trout, and Brown trout are all true trout. Lake trout, Brook Trout, Sunapee Trout (also known as Blueback trout), and Bull Trout are indeed chars.

 

As to Brook trout not being a trout at all, I suggest reading this article, which besides being slightly profane is very enlightening.

http://flyaddicts.com/40rivers/2010/07/26/...ed%3A+40rivers+

[redietz 0]

If you want to get technical rainbows, cutts, brookies, lake trout, blueback trout, bull trout, etc. are not actually trout. Just brownies.

 

Actually Cutthroats, Rainbow Trout, and Brown trout are all true trout. Lake trout, Brook Trout, Sunapee Trout (also known as Blueback trout), and Bull Trout are indeed chars.

 

 

 

That would depend on how you define true trout. Thirty years ago, it indisputably meant members of the genus Salmo, which at the time included rainbow & cutthroats. (Excluding the Atlantic salmon). Members of the genus Oncorhynchus were all referred to as Pacific salmon. By that, definition, Salmo Trutta, the brown trout is now the only true trout we have, at least in North America.

 

When rainbow, cutthroats, etc, were moved to Oncorhynchus, the meaning of "true trout" got a bit slippery. You can define it as "any salmonid who most common strains are land locked", but that would also include the chars.

 

There really is no "scientific" definition of "true trout." If we call it a trout, then it is, except maybe "sea trout" (as used in this country -- the relative of the weak fish as opposed to a sea-run brown.)

 

 

Back to the poll, though, I voted brown. It's the fish that fly fishing was centered around for two thousand years, a true trout by any definition, the most challenging to catch, and the hardiest. It only beats out brookie by nose, though.

 

If we were to vote on least favorite, it would have to be a hatchery rainbow for me.

[smallieFanatic 0]

That is very interesting. However, if it is true that there is no real scientific definition of true trouts, why is there so many books and internet articles that state otherwise?

Are they spewers of misinformation or is there more to it?

[redietz 0]

Are they spewers of misinformation or is there more to it?

 

They're repeating what they remember to have been "true" when they were learning the sport. (Note I said sport; a biologist isn't going to say anything is a trout or not, just whether it belongs to some genus.)

 

This link to the Pennsylvania Fish&Boating Commission page is edifying:

 

PFBC Q&A

 

They use "true-trout" (with a hyphen in one place) to mean the genus salmo, and explain that, by that definition, the only true-trout are the brown trout and the Atlantic salmon. The then go on to explain that you call a fish by any common name you want, it has no real relationship to the biology.

[smallieFanatic 0]

Very interesting. Thank you.

[wetflyguy 0]

 

Love Brookies.

 

wet

[Johny Utah 0]

I picked brown trout. My wife likes the trouser trout though.

[NJFlyMAn 0]

My favorite is the tiger trout... Just love the looks of them

[firedad 0]

Browns on the Truckee River, Cutthroats at Pyramid Lake, and Rainbows at Eagle Lake.

[flytire 0]

rainbows rolled in cornmeal and garlic butter, hash browns with bacon and cheddar cheese and grilled asparagus! good eats!

[fishingbobnelson 0]

Take a look at my picture--STEELHEAD! Can't believe no one has mentioned them till now.