Your most unique trout

[Swattie87]

The one with the curved spine (I’ve caught several like that over the years, though the one here was the biggest) was the most vividly colored Brookie I’ve ever caught and photographed. At first, I remember being kinda disappointed that it had that curved spine. But as more time has passed, I think it makes it even more unique.

 

[wildtrout2]

The one with the curved spine (I’ve caught several like that over the years, though the one here was the biggest) was the most vividly colored Brookie I’ve ever caught and photographed. At first, I remember being kinda disappointed that it had that curved spine. But as more time has passed, I think it makes it even more unique.

The reds on that brookies fins couldn't be more intense.

 

[HopBack]

Swattie wins with the hunch back brookie.

 

[TCWNY]

I got this one yesterday, very few spots. I thought he looked kind of cool

 

[TCWNY]

This was a stocker but I liked that "magic marker" swipe on him lol

 

[wgmiller]

Dug out the laptop and pulled a few from the cache. Note, though I was present for all these fish being caught, some were caught by a buddy I was fishing with that day, or my wife, and I was just the photographer. Ignore the spinner in the one really dark Brown's mouth - I did catch that one, fishing super high water that day. It was a cool fish and I wanted to include it.

Edit: These are all unedited photos, other than size or orientation. I'm not that good with photography, or photography software.

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That dark brown reminds me of a Poconos brown from a stream with a heavy tree canopy that sees little sunlight. I remember catching some on Devil's Hole Creek several years back that were pretty dark, but not as dark as yours.

 

[Swattie87]

Yep, tannic water Browns are gorgeous IMO. This one wasn’t DH, but you’re close, and the fish in DH are similar looking.

 

[ANF-Hiker]

Caught in a local stream...local to Nakina, Ontario, that is! The smaller of the two was just under 14" and was hooked pretty bad (we were fishing walleyes and trout at the base of some rapids) so we kept it. It made a nice reference for my dad and I's PR brook trout.

 

[midnightangler]

A few years back on Logan Branch, there was a brown, about 12" or so that we called old hunchback. He/she had some kind of a deformity, i.e. a very large pronounced hump on his back. He was also dumber than a box of rocks and could be caught on just about anything, nymph, streamer, dry fly, whatever. I think I caught him about 6-8 times over the course of the season and my fishing buddy probably as many times or even more. Wish I had a picture. . .

I have caught this fish

 

[midnightangler]

I have caught this fish

Is this it?

 

[Andrwhite610]

I have nothing that remarkable but I’ll share.

1st is my PB native. What was stunning to me that dosnt translate in the photo well is that the fish looked like it was dusted in gold glitter.

2nd was just odd coloring on a brookie. Same stream as the first brookie.

3rd is just a different pattern on a stocked trout. Big, bold, black spots.

4th is a stocked tiger I caught on the Tulpehocken. Was a neat surprise as I don’t expect a tiger on the Tully.

I’ve never caught a wild brown with out of this world spotting. All beautiful but none worth sharing.

 

[wildtrout2]

I have nothing that remarkable but I’ll share.

1st is my PB native. What was stunning to me that dosnt translate in the photo well is that the fish looked like it was dusted in gold glitter.

I can just faintly make out the gold glitter you're referring to. That's a great native!

 

[Mikey2006]

Mine would have to be this brookie I caught a little over a year ago. It’s still the most colorful native I’ve ever landed, and it was a big one too (8+ inches). Its back was so dark it was almost black, and the amount of blue on it was incredible. And that orange/red…

Surprisingly, this fish was not caught during or directly after the spawn.

 

[wcosner2]

Decided to throw some ugly stockers in there for fun, along with one sparsly spotted native brookie. The rainbow felt like holding a smartphone.

 

[Swattie87]

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Mine would have to be this brookie I caught a little over a year ago. It’s still the most colorful native I’ve ever landed, and it was a big one too (8+ inches). Its back was so dark it was almost black, and the amount of blue on it was incredible. And that orange/red…

Surprisingly, this fish was not caught during or directly after the spawn.

That is a peach. Perfect size there, just small enough to still have the parr marks, but big enough to be an impressive fish. That dark blue is unique. Have maybe one fish similar to that in my catalog. But it was about 4”, and had tried to eat a size 12 Wulff.

 

[Mikey2006]

That is a peach. Perfect size there, just small enough to still have the parr marks, but big enough to be an impressive fish. That dark blue is unique. Have maybe one fish similar to that in my catalog. But it was about 4”, and had tried to eat a size 12 Wulff.

It came from a stream that produces unusually colorful fish. They stayed in full spawning color year round almost. It also produced some unusually big fish for its tiny size.

Unfortunately, last spring a big flood came though and washed out all of the logjams. Almost all the good pools are gone, I haven’t caught a fish over 7 inches there in over a year.

 

[Swattie87]

It’ll recover and change. I have a certain group of streams that every time a flood (like 1 in 10 year flood, not necessarily something devastating) cleans all the sand out of them, they fish pretty well for the period about 2-5 years after that. Then the holes slowly fill back in with sand (geology is red sandstone) and the habitat can’t support much more than dinks. Cycle repeats.

 

[Prospector]

 

[Mikey2006]

It’ll recover and change. I have a certain group of streams that every time a flood (like 1 in 10 year flood, not necessarily something devastating) cleans all the sand out of them, they fish pretty well for the period about 2-5 years after that. Then the holes slowly fill back in with sand (geology is red sandstone) and the habitat can’t support much more than dinks. Cycle repeats.

I’m already starting to catch almost as much little fish as I used to. Just no big ones. They must have had nowhere to go and all got preyed upon

 

[albatross]

This is from our Wyoming trip last August. Snake River Fine-spotted Cutthroat.