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Topic: Lake trout hybrid?  (Read 1889 times)

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pmmpete

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I recently caught a lake trout on Flaming Gorge Reservoir, which straddles the Utah-Wyoming border, which had markings which were quite different from any other lake trout I caught.  Its spots were much larger and more prominent than those on other lake trout, and some of them were long and worm-like.  Was this fish some kind of hybrid?  Sorry about the lousy quality of the pictures -  I snapped them as the fish was thrashing around in my net before I released it.


snopro

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Cool fish. It might be a Splake.  Brookie/Laker hybrid.
« Last Edit: May 20, 2019, 09:04:47 AM by snopro »


Clayman

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Variations in color and spotting can vary dramatically within the same species of trout/char, especially when comparing spatially disconnected populations. When I fished for lakers in CA, many of the ones I caught had the worm-like markings on the back, and some of the smaller ones had vibrant spotting.

The one potential hybrid possibility would be a splake, a cross between a laker and a brook trout. However, most splake are artificially produced and it's very rare to find natural occurrences of them. I don't believe splake have been stocked in Flaming Gorge. It's likely your fish is a pure laker.
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