Blue Trout

[gulfgreyhound]

Blue Salmon and Rainbow Trout from Lake Coleridge - A Genetic Mutation

Blue Salmon and Rainbow Trout. It is estimated that blue trout occur only 30 or so times in 4 million rainbow trout egg hatchings.

fishingmag.co.nz

An interesting read since Pa. is mentioned. GG

 

[lycoflyfisher]

Blue rainbow trout do occur in some pfbc hatcheries. Its a rare occurence and those fish often are kept for viewing by visitors if I remember a hatchery tour from years ago correctly

 

[Solitariolupo]

Sometimes they slip past the fish comm and can get stocked. Would be nice to catch one.

 

[Swattie87]

And people think wild Tiger Trout are rare. Come talk to me when you’ve caught a wild one of these. Annoying small stream wild Trout guys.

 

[HopBack]

I caught one stocked by a local sport club. They received their fingerlings from the PFBC.

 

[blueheron]

I caught one on the Brodhead, once in a lifetime I’m sure.

 

[jrmyln]

I caught one stocked by a local sport club. They received their fingerlings from the PFBC. View attachment 1641224582

Caught quite a few like that in the Lehigh and always wondered if they were descendents from a steelhead stocking project from days long passed.

 

[Solitariolupo]

Has nothing to do with steelhead stocking just a rare skin pigmentation in them. This fish can’t be reproduce.

 

[Peyton]

I wonder if they will do the same thing with these than they did with palameno's. It would be cool to see more of them.

 

[blueheron]

I’m pretty sure its a genetic anomaly , the one I caught was brighter blue and silver than the one in the picture.

 

[dubthethorax]

I wonder if they will do the same thing with these than they did with palameno's. It would be cool to see more of them.

This is purely genetic. They cant just go and "breed more".

 

[Fly-Swatter]

This is purely genetic. They cant just go and "breed more".

"Genetic" means they can breed more. If blue coloration is a gene mutation that results in sterility, then breeding more would at least be more difficult.

 

[Fly-Swatter]

I wonder if they will do the same thing with these than they did with palameno's. It would be cool to see more of them.

It would be particularly interesting to see only blue and gold trout stocked in a body of water where the trout are readily visible. It would kinda be "truth in advertising", meaning the coloration would expose that the white trucks make temporary artificial fisheries.

 

[lycoflyfisher]

We have enough tracer trout as it is....

 

[pcray1231]

And people think wild Tiger Trout are rare. Come talk to me when you’ve caught a wild one of these. Annoying small stream wild Trout guys.

Uhhh. lol.