28 lb RT

[FarmerDave]

link

Based on the freakish shape, this one has to be triploid even though no fin clip.

That think is a freak.

 

[krayfish2]

Look at the girth on that fella! Also, that's a pretty big fish in the photo.

 

[bigslackwater]

Glad to see he didn't hold it by it's lip.

 

[troutbert]

What do you think is the explanation/source of this fish?

My guess is that it's a brood fish from the Dworshak Hatchery.

 

[FarmerDave]

Dwight.

My guess it it originated in a laboratory somewhere.

Seriously. I did already provide a possible explanation (what I think). As I said, it looks like a triploid, and Idaho does (or at least did 7 years ago) stock a fair amount of triploid rainbow trout.

Awhile back there was a discussion on whether triploid should be counted as normal rainbow trout in the record books. I believe currently they are.

No idea if triploid can occur naturally. I don't know enough about it. But that fish does sport the characteristics.

I think normally the adipose fin is clipped because the purpose is for put and take. Stocking these sterile fish helps avoid polluting the natural gene pool.

I was surprised to read that the adipose fin was intact, but there is no way to prove all are clipped.

Maybe a duck carried it there. :lol:

 

[greenghost]

That's a Tun-out -- Tuna-trout hybrid.

 

[LeTortAngler2]

http://internationalfishingnews.blogspot.com/2013/08/usa-28-lb-9-oz-rainbow-trout-caught-in.html?m=1

Same weight RT caught 2 summers ago in the same area

 

[FarmerDave]

greenghost wrote:
That's a Tun-out -- Tuna-trout hybrid.

I was thinking rainblow. Rainbow trout crossed with a blowfish?

 

[AkDan76]

I'm curious but if you look at the two links they look like different fish.

not only the spots are different but the anal fins on both are significantly different.

 

[SteveG]

Wouldn't there be more of an "indentation" in the fish where that guy's hand is?

 

[troutfanatic]

That fish didn't come from a hatchery

it came from a McDonald's drive through.