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Originally Posted by MNfisher
I thought it may be a brown trout, but the pic of others i see are very colorful with brown, yellow and orange.
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I suspect the reason for the pale color is that it was a recently stocked brown. Sometimes the newly stocked browns are pale for several months after they get stocked, just like the freshly-stocked brookies tend to be sort of slate-gray. After they have been in the river for a season, the colors tend to get more vibrant. Also notice that the pectoral fin is missing. For some reason hatchery trout tend to get their fins ground down. I've heard it's damage from the concrete hatchery raceways and I've heard that it's from the crowded hatchery fish nipping each others' fins. I'm not sure which it is, though I suspect the hatchery raceway is probably the actual cause since it's always the pectoral fins. After a fish has been in the river for a long time the fins will grow back.
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