Fish abd Boat comission just stocked a local lake with rainbows (they were supposed to be brookies but I'm not gonna complain).

The fish are quite finicky for hatchery trout and as one of ther guys put it we are catching them but we are not breaking any records.

Anyway all of the fish we caught so far are nearly black in color. I mean they are dark enough that you might have problems seeing the spots on the upper part. The rainbow is dark also but it varies from fish to fish. Compared to the rainbows from this spring which were so silvery bright that you had problems seeing the rainbow stripe this has me wondering...

Is such a big color variation natural? Is it maybe from a diet? - Meat has the normal color.

Any one has any ideas? I will try to snap some pics next Thursday if I manage to land any...