Browns with lines. Common on stocked fish?

There is a tremendous amount of diversity in how the hatchery fish look and there's everything from the beautiful almost looks wild to the spots that look like lines to the ones people argue if they are tiger trout. There's also a lot of diversity within spawns at each hatchery. Trying to link which pattern came from which hatchery doesn't work well either. Brown Trout eggs may be spawned at Reynoldsdale or Benner Spring and then sent to other trout hatcheries, surplus fish may be sent to Bellefonte and stocked by them or even picked up by another hatchery like Pleasant Gap. So when you find that interesting pattern on the Brown Trout you caught, enjoy the fish; you may have to follow quite the paper trail to find out where it came from.
 
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