Tiger?

[MJMFlyfisher]

Was fishing a Delayed Harvest section last weekend and landed 25 trout (in some seriously crappy weather I might add LOL)
24 rainbows and this guy.........like his mom had a brief affair with a brook trout or something 😁
Tigerish?
I've never caught a tiger trout in my life and he doesn't quite match up to the pictures I can find on the google. He even looks wild (Holdover anyway, it's obviously a heavily stocked water)

Either way one of the cooler looking browns I've caught.

 

[dudemanspecial]

Gives bad stocker genetics vibes to me.
Nice fish regardless.

 

[wildtrout2]

Looks to me like a highly manipulated stocked brown, wanna be tiger trout. JMO Cool looking trout though!

 

[albatross]

Memorable fish either way, thanks for sharing!

 

[3wt7X]

We call them digi-browns. Bad genetics from the hatchery. I agree, that appears to be a holdover (possibly from fall stocking) and I think the coloration begins to correct itself over time. Here is a more freshly stocked digi-brown from Yellow Creek a few years back. They look like they were dipped in oil.

 

[sixfootfenwick]

💯 stocked brown

 

[Forestfishin]

I caught a few like that last spring in a recently stocked delayed harvest section. They were browns with a look of a little brookie in them. They are pretty neat looking.

 

[bigjohn358]

If it has black spots its a brown. That's definitely a brown.

 

[Dave_W]

Nice looking brown trout.

 

[jifigz]

Digi-browns are the ugliest stocked trout around.

And OP, I wasn't insulting your fish. I was only making a blanket statement about most digi-browns.

 

[wildtrout2]

Digi-browns are the ugliest stocked trout around.

And OP, I wasn't insulting your fish. I was only making a blanket statement about most digi-browns.

Couldn't agree more.

 

[5footfenwick]

Digi browns are weird. Of all the stocked trout varieties out there why digi browns?

Why can’t we get something cool like those Puccini trout from Italy.

Better looking stockie brown strain for sure, but pretty much anything looks better than digi browns. I will say the original poster’s picture is much better looking than a lot of the digi browns I’ve seen.
~5footfenwick

 

[MJMFlyfisher]

How have I been fly fishing for 35 years and never heard the term "Digi-brown"? 😂
I don't fish stocked waters much so maybe I just missed this apparent abomination LOL
Well his colors and fins sure prettied up in the time he's been in there.....had to have been a last year stocking and he fought twice as hard as any of the freshly stocked rainbows I landed. If I tied him to the tail of one of the comparably sized rainbows I caught he would have drug it around backwards on plane like a water-skier.

 

[wildtrout2]

Digi browns are weird. Of all the stocked trout varieties out there why digi browns?

Why can’t we get something cool like those Puccini trout from Italy.
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Better looking stockie brown strain for sure, but pretty much anything looks better than digi browns. I will say the original poster’s picture is much better looking than a lot of the digi browns I’ve seen.
~5footfenwick

At first, I thought that was a yamame trout, with the radical/vivid red spots. Amazing colors on that trout.

 

[wildtrout2]

How have I been fly fishing for 35 years and never heard the term "Digi-brown"? 😂
I don't fish stocked waters much so maybe I just missed this apparent abomination LOL

It's a fairly new term to describe the hideous spot patterns on some of the hatchery brown trout stocked these days. I only recall it being mentioned in maybe the last 5 years, or so?

 

[jifigz]

It's a fairly new term to describe the hideous spot patterns on some of the hatchery brown trout stocked these days. I only heard it mentioned in maybe the last 5 years, or so. Maybe even less.

Yeah, I agree. And we don't use it too often because stockie browns aren't as common as stockie bows . Plus, not all stockie browns are digi-browns, further diminishing the term's use.

But all stocked browns are uglier than bows and brooks. Maybe we should import some cutties and start stocking them!

 

[ryansheehan]

Couldn't agree more.

Facts. The number of people that call those Tigers is unbelievable.

 

[rustbeltwilds]

10000000o pct digi brown...fact is IF they holdover long term like 2 yrs or more those vermiculations eventually close off and try to become round...i agree they are ugly

 

[wildtrout2]

10000000o pct digi brown...fact is IF they holdover long term like 2 yrs or more those vermiculations eventually close off and try to become...

One big spot. 🙂

 

[bigjohn358]

Those so called "Digi" browns that so many confused with tigers I've heard are supposedly less prone to diseases in the hatcheries. I'm not sure how true this is but it would maybe make sense that so many hatcheries seem to be changing over to this strain of brown.