http://lenharris.blogspot.com/2009/01/wisconsin-driftless-tiger-trout.html
Neat fish. Are they a hybrid?
tells about tigers.
Brook Trout x Brown Trout = GGGggrrrreat Trout!!! My one and only Tiger thus far was not nearly as big as those or as pretty.
These must me stocked…? Tigers can occur naturally, but are VERY rare. I’ve fished water where brown and brook trout live together for 17 years, and have never seen one. There are some stocked waters about 7 hours from my house…might go for them this coming season. Thanks for sharing!
BUT … have they seen you ??
they are very rare.
I had never seen one before 2001.
The water quality and coldness has gotten better in recent years.
The brook trout have come back with a vengeance.
I have personally spoke with 3 fish managers from Wisconsin and they are not NOT stocked.
They used to mix a few in all the stockings around here, but I did not see one in a year or so… I agree they are a blast. More aggesive than other trout and strong fighters. 16" Tiger on a light rod will really test your skill .
The tiger trout is a sterile hybrid cross between a female brown trout and a male brook trout. The fish exhibits unusual markings found in neither parent. Tiger trout are rare in the wild, appearing only in areas where brook and brown trout share spawning grounds.
Tiger trout are infertile. This is caused by the dissimilarity between the chromosome numbers of the two parent species. Brook trout have 84 chromosomes, browns have just 80.
This interspecies cross is unusual, in part because each fish belongs to a separate genus (Salvelinus for brook trout and Salmo for browns). It happens rarely in the wild, but can be (and is) easily performed by fisheries biologists or hatchery technicians.
Naturally-occurring tiger trout generally appear only in streams that have higher brook trout than brown trout populations. And while they don’t appear often, they are becoming more commonly found in the Midwest and New England.
beautiful looking fish, i have yet to even catch a brookie. Not many place in Australia to find them 
Dont think we have any Tiger trout stocked. Anyone ever catch a Golden Trout?
We have a lot of the golden trout here in California. Actually it’s the state fish. I’ve caught some.
The NDOW stocks those tiger trouts in Topaz Lake. That’s on the U.S. 395 at the state line of California and Nevada. On Nov. 8, '08 they stocked 3,780 of them. I’ve seen a few caught but have never got one myself. The are unusually beautiful trouts. Jim
Was contacted by email today by one of their columnists.
They wanted a telephone number for me. They want to interview
me. They are doing a TIGER trout piece.
Will supply some photos possibly also.
Golden, like the high altitude California type?
Or the Golden Rainbow AKA Palomino Trout?
I haven’t caught either one. I’ll probably never get a crack at the high country type (Oncorhynchus mykiss aguabonita). The “Palomino” are novelty fish that are bred in captivity and released in streams I can access with out a helicopter or pack horse. There’s a lot of them in PA.
the top photo one, they look very beautiful. I remember once watching an underwater video of the golden trout, it was spectacular. The tiger trout looks similar to a marble trout, although i think off memory marble trout are a sub species of the brown trout?
Not to hijack this thread but dazwah seems curious. Check out this website for information on the California Golden Trout. Jim
http://www.publiclandsranching.org/htmlres/PDF/CalTroutEconomicReport.pdf
The majority of these trout are small. A friend of mine works for CA DFG and annually harvested golden trout eggs from Cottonwood lakes for the hatchery. He has lots of pictures of the area and very large goldies. Jim
I have caught a golden trout. They are really small fish and are very beautiful. The Sierras here in california are full of them. A lot of the lakes that they are in are high country glacial lakes that are crystal clear. It makes for a challenging catch on a fly rod.
I have caught plenty goldens, although the ones that I have caught are not the native wild ones that they have out west, but nontheless they are goldens. I don’t really fish for them per se, but use them as spotter fish. If I see a golden than I know that rainbows are close by.
From my experience I think the Tigers take on the
genes from the brook trout and if the brookie is muted
the tiger will be. If the brookie is a flame belly…
So will be the tiger.
I think the tigers take on the color of the brookies from the area. The above tiger and brookie were caught in the same hole.
Colorful brookie and tiger caught from the same hole.
