WOW, that is some fish. Too bad they couldn?t revive the poor guy. What a thrill it must be to cast to one that size, never mind catch one. BTW, it?s great to see the effort PA is making to get kids involved. Great pics!


Humber Brad,

?Gold Trout? is a strain of Rainbow Trout developed in hatcheries, descended from a single female that popped up in a WV hatchery. I think they?re stocked for put and take fisheries in WV and MO in addition to PA. Maybe other places too. They tend not to last too long in the wild, since they?re pretty easy to spot. Usually they?re raised to trophy size in the hatcheries before stocking, and they tend to grow faster in hatcheries than ?regular? rainbows.

When they?re bred back to normal rainbows they sometimes produce weird colored offspring like ?Palomino Trout? which PA stocks as both trophy and average size.

When they?re bred to each other sometimes you get weird colored off spring like rainbows with a sky blue body. Kind of a frankenfish IMHO.

The beautiful Golden Trout of the high mountains out west is a completely separate species.

peregrines