Hi All,

Was doing a bit of reading up earlier on the Salmonidae family of fish (see I learned something ). I see our native brown trout was introduced into N & S America and also S Hemisphere countries where they have had negative impact on native fish in some cases. The same could be said for the introduction of rainbows into European waters.

Im just wondering why clubs/fisheries continue to stock rainbows into our native waters instead of just brown trout? Im guessing its no more difficult or expensive to just stock brown trout!? So whats the reason?

Rainbows are more aggressive and therefore provide easier targets for put and take anglers.

Grouse

I understand that Rainbows are also cheaper to buy, pound for pound.

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Dave

and bows grow alot faster.

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What a tourist terms a plague of insects, the fly fisher calls a great hatch.

You can fish for bows all year so some brown trout fishermen fish for bows during the closed brown trout season . I think brown trout are more expensive per lb than bows .

also rainbows have a much higher fighting qualitie but id rather catch brownies

LOL this is a joke right??????????
A wild brown trout of 2lb will give a better fight than a 4 lb rainbow

i wouldnt know about wild fish ive only ever caught 2 and they were under a pound..but as in stocked fish rainbows defintaly fight harder than browns

A simple answer is Why not stock them?

They are cheaper to buy than Brown trout by far,thye grow alot faster than Browns like has been said along with the other reasons.

They are a beautiful coloured fish and fight very well in the main and if from good stock are just as good as browns.If I had any choice the one fish I would stock all the time is the Blues,this fish is top of my list for both beauty and fighting qualities and areodynamics in the fight and unlike the rainbow,do tend to take more imative patterns than larger flies.

It has the qualities of both Browns and rainbow all in one fish.

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Kevin

Rainbows are cheaper to produce for the farmer because he can stock far more in each pond than he can with browns - browns need a lot of space around them. We used to stock rainbows so heavily that at times you would have thought you could have walked across them!
Rainbows tend to fight in a more "dashing" way - fast runs and lots of acrobatics, whereas browns tend to stay deeper and fight more slowly - particularly bigger fish. Obviously there are exceptions but these make rainbows appear to fight 'better' which appeals to many anglers. Personally I'd rather fish for wild browns - but having reared somewhere in the region of 20 million rainbows in my previous career that's understandable!
StickMan