my local fishery claim to stock blue and tiger trout along with brown and rainbow.

i have never seen a blue or a tiger trout, has anyone got any pics of them to show me, so i know if i catch one.

i wasn't aware they even exsisted untill the ther day.

A blue is just a rainbow that's silvery blue.and a tiger trout is a Brown trout bred with a char I believe .
This is a blue


jim

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You can't miss a blue. It's nothing more than a strain of rainbow, but it's beautiful to see, ice blue across the back, silver sides, with hardly any rainbow colours. A tiger is a hybrid brown/brookie or char (can't remember) and is very striking with zig-zag stripes, not unlike a pike. Never caught a tiger, and i hear theyre not easy.

You'll know a blue right away - for some reason they tend to fight VERY hard , they are very silvery with a blue back. They look great...

Tigers are darkish browny colour with strange (tiger) markings on their back (caught a very nice 7lb tiger once...)

You can also get gold trout which I think are bloody orrible looking...I've only caught one and it was like pulling in a wet slipper.

Seems odd that different "coloured" trout seem to have different fighting characteristics.

......flipping heck...since typing it and submitting two others have jumped in with photos and everything !!

wow, that tiger trout is a nice fish, i look forward to catching one of them

the blue trout image didnt open for me

cheers everyone

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has anyne got a pic of a gld trout ??

I find that if you took one rainbow, and extracted all the best qualities, the fight, colour, taste, muscle, etc, you'd be left with a blue trout. the remainder would be the goldie. An insipid, flabby excuse for a trout.

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Sadly i don't know how to upload photos here. i'll try a goldie...

and most tigers aren't as nice as that wild one..



Hurrah, it worked!

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Here's a blue..



There is also a wild golden trout. not to be confused with the flabby variety here...

Technically correct Jim, I believe it's actually a brown x american brook trout which is actually a char not a trout.

Why is it that blues fight harder than normal rainbows, I've caught a few and I'm sure that I'm not imagining it.

As far as I know I've never fished anywhere with a chance of a tiger but I'd really love to catch one as they look like a stunning fish.

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I managed to catch a few tiger trout when Sutton Bingham reservoir stocked them one year in the early 2000s, and they are indeed very nice fish. When prepared for the table they had deep red flesh and they made very good eating (it's a catch and kill only fishery, btw...)

These fish are rarer than they were even 10 years ago, I believe due to issues with importing brook trout / char as one half of the cross.

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Has anyone else noticed that Blue trout seem to take a fly as soon as it hits the water and then after a few seconds you can only realy get them to take by enducing a bite

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What a horrible thing, could give kids nightmares but the trouts a fine fish.
Is that a booby hanging out his mouth Jim

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