Pretty Tiger on a lure today.

[LHR]

Got a chance to take my daughter out for a morning of fishing and had a good time until the wind really picked up!

 

[MrTom]

That's sure a beauty. There's a very tiny cold water stream not but 20 miles from my home that has a nice population of natural tiger trout in it and I stop there and toss a spinner occasionally. In all the years I have been fishing the stream I have caught two tigers and they were about 8" long. The one in the pic is a dandy. Envious!

 

[CatamountRob]

Wow that is a cool fish!

 

[ThreePoint]

Good one!

 

[D55]

Have seen tiger musky but never a tiger trout. Nice

 

[mnoland30]

I've never heard of tiger trout. Is it some sort of hybrid, or an endangered species? We have Gila trout here in NM, we can catch them, but can't eat them.

 

[MrTom]

Tiger trout occur naturally when brown and brook trout inhabit the same waters. Both are late fall/early winter spawners and sometimes spawn right next to each other if they share the same environment, most likely either eggs or milt washes downstream when one or the other fish spawns out and the eggs or milt end up in a very freshly fertilized nest of the other trout.

 

[LHR]

I've never heard of tiger trout. Is it some sort of hybrid, or an endangered species? We have Gila trout here in NM, we can catch them, but can't eat them.

I believe these are hybrids that get stocked here locally? But we also have native brown and brookies in the same waters so hard to say?

 

[Hausser1]

Beautiful fish. I've never seen or heard of this species until now, and we have plenty of brookies and browns swimming these Michigan waters. Thanks for the education!!

 

[brad502a]

How do they taste?

 

[LHR]

I only eat them when caught thru the ice, but at that time they are the best eating trout there is in my opinion!

 

[fishdfly]

Got a chance to take my daughter out for a morning of fishing and had a good time until the wind really picked up!View attachment 20950

Nice, I always wanted to catch a fresh water trout, never have, sigh.

 

[Firewater Forge]

Nice, I always wanted to catch a fresh water trout, never have, sigh.

You're just not using the right amount of TNT.