Tiger Trout

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Tiger Trout

Post by lightenup » Wed Feb 05, 2020 12:58 pm

Nice fish...my first tiger trout, been fishing 40 plus years...
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Took a scud in dead still water, sucked it off the bottom.

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Re: Tiger Trout

Post by Jaybird » Wed Feb 05, 2020 1:21 pm

That's a beauty!

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Re: Tiger Trout

Post by martalus » Wed Feb 05, 2020 3:05 pm

Nice fish! Is it a wild fish?

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Re: Tiger Trout

Post by lightenup » Wed Feb 05, 2020 3:21 pm

I doubt it because of it's size...it did have full fins and fought well...but I know a bunch of these were stocked by Shannon's last year..I was in the KLG. The fish was approx 17 inches...maybe 16. You can see the net markings and he was bent a bit.

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Re: Tiger Trout

Post by Troutman » Wed Feb 05, 2020 5:03 pm

nice......
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Re: Tiger Trout

Post by coaltrout » Wed Feb 05, 2020 7:45 pm

Great fish! especially that it'sa tiger.

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Re: Tiger Trout

Post by Fishybig » Wed Feb 05, 2020 7:54 pm

Stocked or knot,their one of the few unicorns in our rivers....
Nice work!!!

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Re: Tiger Trout

Post by BiggerThomas » Thu Feb 06, 2020 8:11 am

Nice winter treat, old boy. In addition to their exotic vermiculation, I've always thought of them as kind of otherworldly since they're also sterile.
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Re: Tiger Trout

Post by Rusty Spinner » Thu Feb 06, 2020 9:47 am

I've caught several stocked tigers, but still no wild tigers in my 47 years fly fishing. Nice fish, LU.
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Re: Tiger Trout

Post by coaltrout » Thu Feb 06, 2020 11:09 am

Rusty Spinner wrote:
Thu Feb 06, 2020 9:47 am
I've caught several stocked tigers, but still no wild tigers in my 47 years fly fishing. Nice fish, LU.
Im empty in both scenarios. Hope if i hit more brookie-like water in a brown trout stream i can find a wild one. From my understanding theyll be around where brookies are dominate in a stretch where browns take place?

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Re: Tiger Trout

Post by Rusty Spinner » Thu Feb 06, 2020 11:48 am

coaltrout wrote:
Thu Feb 06, 2020 11:09 am
Rusty Spinner wrote:
Thu Feb 06, 2020 9:47 am
I've caught several stocked tigers, but still no wild tigers in my 47 years fly fishing. Nice fish, LU.
Im empty in both scenarios. Hope if i hit more brookie-like water in a brown trout stream i can find a wild one. From my understanding theyll be around where brookies are dominate in a stretch where browns take place?
As the old saying goes, it only takes two to tango. So anytime you have both wild brookies and wild browns, you have a chance at wild tigers. Not sure if a preponderance of one species over the other is important or not.
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Re: Tiger Trout

Post by Troutman » Thu Feb 06, 2020 1:06 pm

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my 2nd tired in my 40 years of fishing
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Re: Tiger Trout

Post by BiggerThomas » Thu Feb 06, 2020 1:48 pm

Rusty Spinner wrote:
Thu Feb 06, 2020 11:48 am
coaltrout wrote:
Thu Feb 06, 2020 11:09 am
Rusty Spinner wrote:
Thu Feb 06, 2020 9:47 am
I've caught several stocked tigers, but still no wild tigers in my 47 years fly fishing. Nice fish, LU.
Im empty in both scenarios. Hope if i hit more brookie-like water in a brown trout stream i can find a wild one. From my understanding theyll be around where brookies are dominate in a stretch where browns take place?
As the old saying goes, it only takes two to tango. So anytime you have both wild brookies and wild browns, you have a chance at wild tigers. Not sure if a preponderance of one species over the other is important or not.
"Dating outside your race" makes me wonder about other "sociological" practices that humans and animals share.
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Re: Tiger Trout

Post by Twism86 » Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:45 am

Nice job!!

Im the opposite spectrum of catching tigers, all of mine have been wild. I ave caught 3 in my time if I recall. Two from a WTS and one from the KLG which was the most surprising fish of the bunch. It was only about 5-6" so definitely a wild fish.
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