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Rainbows all day
Browns. Most rainbows are pretty plain unless you get one with real strong coloration. Brookies beat them both by a mile in the looks department though.
Some of the first open water trout in April 2021. Looks like a bow/brookie cross?, there all stocked trout so a hatchery cross. Caught a lot of different colored rainbows in this lake but only two like this.
You can’t physically have a rainbow/brookie cross. Technically rainbows are “trout” and brookies are “char”. Brown trout are char, lake trout are char, and so are brookies. This is how you can make splake and tiger trout. No idea what a lake trout, brown trout cross is, but I bet it’s quite carnivorous! Your pics are all gorgeous colored, full bred, rainbow trout! I think whichever ones are more “rare” are the more attractive. I love the look of big hook jawed male browns compared to rainbows, but I see a lot more rainbows. That could all change if the script was flipped probably. And let’s face it, some hooked jawed male browns, are ugly as hell…but so so awesome hahaha!
However rainbows don't seem to sell that well to my taxidermy customers, as they are typically easily acquired at any trout hatchery. So I thought this year I would I would kill two birds with one stone, and hatch brown trout for the both the live market and the taxidermy market. Wholesaler didn't think it would make much difference. Turns out the biggest customer of the wholesaler isn't sure he wants browns as rainbows are "prettier."
As some of you know I raise trout among other species of fish. Last year I produced several hundred pounds of rainbows for a wholesaler for pond stocking. However rainbows don't seem to sell that well to my taxidermy customers, as they are typically easily acquired at any trout hatchery. So I thought this year I would I would kill two birds with one stone, and hatch brown trout for the both the live market and the taxidermy market. Wholesaler didn't think it would make much difference. Turns out the biggest customer of the wholesaler isn't sure he wants browns as rainbows are "prettier." Of course it's all subjective, but which species do you think is "prettier? (Pictures googled off the Internet.)
Check out a Columbia River Redband trout
I think the brook trout beats them all.