my first post, what is this fish?

[tipiper]

first post.
I fish for my living and just a caught a strange one.
New Mexico, Cimarron River below Eagle Nest dam.
scales were like a rainbow, red dots mean a brown.

what ye think?

Ti Piper (not sure if the jpg will show so this is a test post)

[flyandtie]

I would say it is a BROWN trout.

It looks like it might have a deformity though, Because of the strange hump in its back....Maybe it's back was broken and healed abnormally??

[flyandtie]

How silly of me to forget this.... WELCOME TO THE BB!!!

[nighthawk]

Welcome aboard! A hybrid brown perhaps? I really do not know.

[DShock]

Brook trout can be broad in the body but that looks like a brown trout with a hump!
Welcome to the BB!
Doug

[tipiper]

it has the hump, for sure. And the really short mouth jaw line of a rainbow.

came up and took a dry fly parachute caddis nymph just like I was delivering bacon and eggs.

came up, out of the nether, slurped it in, fought like it should, hung around for pictures and back it went, I could catch it tomorrow, cept its a hundred miles away and I aint going back there tomorrow.

the scales were really rainbow, the hump? browns are not affected by whirling disease, but odd.

it had just a touch of the "brown" that a brown trout has as coloration.

I do this for my living so this is not a post from someone who has not seen the variation in trouts.

odd. Great evening, hooked a larger fish, lost in a cutbank, and a pair of rainbows, one obviously a stocker and the other perfect, either streambred or at least stream raised.

Ti

[DShock]

Wouldn't a Female Brown have a short jaw line and a young Brown be colored close to a brook or rainbow?
Doug

[Flyrodde]

I've seen that deformity before. It was in a lake run fish much larger than that one, but it had the hump. A charter captain had a guest catch it and he said it was the weirdest thing he has ever seen. The captain kept it get get it mounted. When it came back from the Taxadermist it was nearly normal. The tax said he tried to stretch it best he could but it still didn't look right. The captain was furious. He got the mount for free, but he had pictures to show what the fish really looked like. It was a very nice brown (he had the state DEC identify it just in case) 13 lbs I believe. But the pics looked just like your's except a bunch larger and in lake colors.

[nen-bran]

welcome tpiper...weird fish. I would think it is just a freak deformity that you see once in a lifetime or so. are you from new mexico by the way? PLEASE SAY WE HAVE ANOTHER NM POSTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nen-bran

[tipiper]

nenbran, I wrote the book Fishing in New Mexico. I work for (contractor) NMDGF as a fishing skills instructor. learning is my lifeline.

I caught another odd one in New Hampshire, rainbow scales but .... odd.

Ti