Northwest Fishing Reports

Maybe you all have seen this before.
I was talking to a buddy from B.C.,he was fishing in Oregon and was catching some odd looking trout. Long story short,through some research. Its a Albino trout...I've never heard of this until now. Anyone else know of these?


I found this photo off google

Pretty sure that is not an 'albino trout.' My guess would be a golden trout, a pretty rare and coveted catch. Here are a few pics of golden trout to cross compare... What do you think?

Beerman

kevinb wrote:Maybe you all have seen this before.
I was talking to a buddy from B.C.,he was fishing in Oregon and was catching some odd looking trout. Long story short,through some research. Its a Albino trout...I've never heard of this until now. Anyone else know of these?


I found this photo off google

I think thats it. Cool looking trout.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Trout That's a golden trout I believe....

Looks like those are albino's to me kevinb.....Lots of animals aren't pure white per say when they are albino, often times that golden yellow color.....

A couple months back they were selling a fish like that at the QFC a few miles from my house. Weirdest thing I have ever seen, it had to be a trout but it was that yellow color. There was nobody in the deli at the time, so I could never get a straight answer. 3 days later they were all gone. Has anybody seen these fish at a deli?

gpc wrote:A couple months back they were selling a fish like that at the QFC a few miles from my house. Weirdest thing I have ever seen, it had to be a trout but it was that yellow color. There was nobody in the deli at the time, so I could never get a straight answer. 3 days later they were all gone. Has anybody seen these fish at a deli?

GPC, they are in the seafood section all the time, and yes, they are labeled as Golden trout.
On that note.... It's funny how it stands out to me when I look at trout in the grocery store now, even at the best grocery stores I think the trout just look un-appetizing, or not fresh. When your frame of reference is looking at fish in the boat, you just take one look at trout in the store, and they look gross.

I have another thought on this one.

I have caught the California Golden Trout, and they are cool, but have more spots and a lot more color on them.

I have always been told that a true Albino, even in trout, have red eyes, and this fish does not. I am not so sure about this though for fish.

There is another possibility that I can think of. In commercial trout hatcheries, in Idaho's Magic Valley area, they had the occasional trout that had the yellow color and the occasional trout that had the blue color. One hatchery, Blue Lakes if I recall correctly, took the yellow fish and blue fish and bred yellow to yellow, blue to blue, to develop what they hoped would be a new novelty market for the fresh fish market.

Now I don't think the market ever took off, but the Hatchery had ponds at they hatchery outlet the you could fish in after paying a fee. They stalked it with these yellow (dead ringer for the fish shown) and blue phases of rainbow trout. The fish grew fast, big, and they were quite a nobility to fish for.

I wonder if the now quite developed strains have been released for staking in certain lakes? I have not fished at that hatchery stalked pound since about 1982, so I have totally lost contact, but........................................

It definitely doesn't look like a typical golden trout to me.
The red-eyes trait I've heard as well, regarding albino fish...so I'm more inclined to think this is simply a "rare" color variant.

For instance, blackbears can be silvery gray, black, cinnamon brown, or even an occasional WHITE blackbear (not albino). There is an area in northern canada that estimates as many as 10% of blackbears are born WHITE in this area---but they rarely make it to adulthood due to predation. I'd assume the same is common with these whitish colored trout.

For reference, here is a golden trout (bottom) and a coastal (top).
Pic borrowed from the hi-lakers slideshow, page 82:
http://hilakers.org/slideshow.php?page= ... prefresh=1

quadradomus wrote:

gpc wrote:A couple months back they were selling a fish like that at the QFC a few miles from my house. Weirdest thing I have ever seen, it had to be a trout but it was that yellow color. There was nobody in the deli at the time, so I could never get a straight answer. 3 days later they were all gone. Has anybody seen these fish at a deli?

GPC, they are in the seafood section all the time, and yes, they are labeled as Golden trout.
On that note.... It's funny how it stands out to me when I look at trout in the grocery store now, even at the best grocery stores I think the trout just look un-appetizing, or not fresh. When your frame of reference is looking at fish in the boat, you just take one look at trout in the store, and they look gross.

Yeah, I've seem the golden trout at the QFC by my house too. I had to ask what they were just to be sure. And yeah Quad, I think the same thing each time I go to the seafood dept. 1st thought is "man, those look kinda nasty, been sitting out too long, meat is probably all mushy by now", then "people pay that much for them?!?"#-o

Photoshop! Just kiddin.' It's not a surprise though that there aren't more of those, they'd stick out like a sore thumb for any predator trying to get a meal. Evolution slips up every once and a while.

Heres another website that talks about these trout, has some more explaination about them.
HH
http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.p ... bino+trout

Gringo Pescador wrote:

quadradomus wrote:

gpc wrote:A couple months back they were selling a fish like that at the QFC a few miles from my house. Weirdest thing I have ever seen, it had to be a trout but it was that yellow color. There was nobody in the deli at the time, so I could never get a straight answer. 3 days later they were all gone. Has anybody seen these fish at a deli?

GPC, they are in the seafood section all the time, and yes, they are labeled as Golden trout.
On that note.... It's funny how it stands out to me when I look at trout in the grocery store now, even at the best grocery stores I think the trout just look un-appetizing, or not fresh. When your frame of reference is looking at fish in the boat, you just take one look at trout in the store, and they look gross.

Yeah, I've seem the golden trout at the QFC by my house too. I had to ask what they were just to be sure. And yeah Quad, I think the same thing each time I go to the seafood dept. 1st thought is "man, those look kinda nasty, been sitting out too long, meat is probably all mushy by now", then "people pay that much for them?!?"#-o

I rarely buy stuff from the seafood dept. If anything I will buy shrimp, but have never bought trout. One time, there was 2 stickers on the package for the trout, one read "farm raised" and the other said "wild caught". Dont buy trout from the store lol

Years ago at Seward Park when the UW was raising Donaldson(diploid) trout for study purposes in the hatchery ponds there,they had one pond that was filled with albino Donaldson's that ranged from 4-12 lbs.Checking out those ponds always got my blood racing seeing trout into the teens.Never did get the monsters off the creek there but catching 4+ lb fish was always a plus in the cold of Dec-Feb.

Most people who buy the seafood from any retail place are people who do not fish so they have no experience in what a true "fresh caught seafood" is like.Those trout are just like the freshly released stockers are like after being in the fridge for a few days.I have problems even buying seafood from places that just sell seafood.Restaurants are different because I never see what it started out as.

A friend just sent me a post on Salmon that got my attention. Obviously the article was not about these fish, but it talks about a color variation in fish, and in the case of the article, White Salmon.

It is worth a read just for the insite.

http://www.thinksalmon.com/professor/it ... ok_salmon/

White salmon? That would be one heck of a catch!

joshswrench wrote:White salmon? That would be one heck of a catch!

While not the same fish that Anglinarcher posted the link to, every once in a while a king salmon with white meat is caught by fishermen. Looks exactly the same but when you cut it open, white meat! I think its because they eat a lot of squid and other foods that don't give their meat the standard orangy-red color.

I've had the privilege of catching one white king. Wasn't big, but I'd be lying if I said that it wasn't the best King salmon I've ever had. Ate it a few hours after catching it too....

I've caught some pinks that had white meat, but they were pretty far up the river. That would be great catching a white one though. Probably be worthy of the wall depending on size.

thought i would bring this post back up its pretty cool!

I know this is a resurrected old post but...Back in the day when my children were young (25+ years ago) I took them to a pay to fish pond somewhere here in Washington. For the life of me I can't remember where it was at. The pond was stocked with Golden Trout and if you wanted to keep the fish that the kids caught you paid for them by the pound. If you didn't want to keep the fish they would feed them to the caged bears on the property. The place was kind of like the setup at the Olympic Game Farm but I don't remember them ever having fishing ponds on their property.

Golden Trout Info:
Native only to the upper Kem River basin in Tulare and Kem Counties, California, the golden trout occurs in clear, cool waters at elevations higher than 6890 ft. Despite its limited distribution, there are two recognizable subspecies of golden trout. Golden Trout have been introduced to other areas, including the states of Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming, which have self-sustaining populations. Some consider the Golden Trout to be one of the most beautiful species of freshwater game fishes.