Quote Originally Posted by JohnScott View Post
...First, is the spotting on both sides of a trout exactly the same or is the spotting on each side typically different than the other side ??...

...But I always take fish pix from the same side, so I've never had pix of both sides of the same fish to compare as a starting point to answer the first question above. ...
... I took pix of one brown and two rainbows from both sides so I could compare the spotting and answer my own question.

The spotting is different enough on each side on all three that you would not be able to identify any of them as the "same fish" based on the pix.

John