Hi there

In caught this ( and a couple of others) on a czech nymph on the itchen near Winchester in december and of course carefully returned it.

However its been buggung me ever since as to whether its a Sea Trout , Brown trout or salmon parr

.also the mouth angle & tail looks a little different .
I have had many brown trout of this size before but they have all had v different markings and colourings - and certainly no fingerprint type markings.

Sorry the pictures are not great but any help in positively identifying the species would be greatly appreciated to put me out my misery !

Thanks

Regards

Paul

I would say salmon parr ,lack of spots and only one on gill plate,adipose fin is clear ?

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Yep I'm with Bruce, definitely looks like a Salmon parr
to me !!

JC

Yep, salmon parr. Get loads of them in my local river Irt.