Author Topic: Tiger trout (updated 11-25 with uintah tigers) (Read 17581 times)

mike304 · « **Reply #30 on:** Jan 22, 2012, 09:57 AM »

They can actually occur naturally, although it is very rare. I caught one out of a stream near where I grew up that was only 5" long, which was too small to have been stocked(not to mention that the stream wasn't stocked to begin with!). I was in college for fisheries and wildlife management and showed it to my fisheries Prof, who confirmed it was a tiger.

tundraman · « **Reply #31 on:** Jan 22, 2012, 11:33 AM »

crazy!

MOONEY · « **Reply #32 on:** Jan 24, 2012, 09:48 AM »

That is a really cool fish, I've never seen one of them before.

muskyon46 · « **Reply #33 on:** Aug 23, 2012, 11:48 PM »

I found a pic of this 27incher my buddy caught a couple of winters ago while looking for a pic to enter in the contest, just had to post it up after i decided to go with a sunset pic instead. Beautiful fish

and some more with spawn color

heres the 25in i caught

sorry about blurring out the great scenery from these lakes but some people will take everyone home they catch, we just want them to get bigger

Pauly G. · « **Reply #34 on:** Aug 24, 2012, 09:11 AM »

I have seen video of people catching these in Michigan. Only tiny ones though, these are huge!

fishonone · « **Reply #35 on:** Aug 24, 2012, 08:01 PM »

ya them fish are fun i cannot wait till fall to go get some tiger on. my best i think is 26 what you think musky46

, but i want the ice to get here

muskyon46 · « **Reply #36 on:** Aug 25, 2012, 01:13 AM »

Quote from: fishon11 on Aug 24, 2012, 08:01 PM

my best i think is 26 what you think musky46

ya you got me by an inch and bub has me by 2, hopefully that will all change this fall

bring on the cold weather. Hey you should post a pic of some of yours ill add my 25in to the pics above

fishonone · « **Reply #37 on:** Aug 25, 2012, 09:41 AM »

[/color][/img][/img]ok see if this works

now i need to get one threw the hard deck

The Reel Deal · « **Reply #38 on:** Sep 23, 2012, 04:01 AM »

Wow! Great looking fish!

fishonone · « **Reply #39 on:** Sep 23, 2012, 11:43 AM »

getting ready to go for them, we hope to get in to some nice ones maybe the wall mounter

muskyon46 · « **Reply #40 on:** Nov 25, 2012, 10:46 PM »

made our 1st ice trip to the high country friday and found some safe ice that had plenty of willing tigers

pretty cool how the color can very in these fish

just_a_beer_man · « **Reply #41 on:** Nov 26, 2012, 09:03 AM »

Quote from: adkRoy on Jan 09, 2012, 06:53 PM

Not naturally but I do know one place they are stocked that you can open water fish only.

Ive caught a few there. Just wish we could Ice fish it!!!

Bigassbassman · « **Reply #42 on:** Nov 26, 2012, 10:38 AM »

Nice job --- beautiful fish! Those are on my bucket list, for sure...

polski · « **Reply #43 on:** Nov 26, 2012, 05:01 PM »

I got 3 in one afternoon on a yellow rooster tail this fish inhaled it the other I saved for someone else

muskyon46 · « **Reply #44 on:** Nov 26, 2012, 08:30 PM »

Nice fish polski, the reds in that thing are awesome. We keep tryin to get them when they get the spawn colors going, but it can be tough to time every year with the way our resevoirs fluctuate around here. Again nice fish

fishonone · « **Reply #45 on:** Nov 26, 2012, 08:41 PM »

that a nice mount i would like to get a 27in and put it on the wall

petrgill · « **Reply #46 on:** Nov 27, 2012, 11:23 AM »

Nice, always like the driftwood mounts.

missoulafish · « **Reply #47 on:** Nov 27, 2012, 11:59 PM »

Great pictures guys!

acaravaglia · « **Reply #48 on:** Dec 04, 2012, 12:41 PM »

Never got one. Mostly stocked right?

muskyon46 · « **Reply #49 on:** Dec 04, 2012, 06:50 PM »

Yes they are here in utah, but there is the possibilty to happen natrually just not in utah. They are all home grown at the hatcheries

hesseltine32 · « **Reply #50 on:** Dec 06, 2012, 05:12 PM »

nice. a fish id love to cross off the list

IceRaider · « **Reply #51 on:** Jan 18, 2013, 03:25 AM »

These fish are really cool looking. I did a Google image search and found these nice pics:

waltsfishing · « **Reply #52 on:** Jan 18, 2013, 06:15 AM »

tigers are a hybrid they can not reproduce on their own , i have caught alot of them in CT

reddog11 · « **Reply #53 on:** Jan 18, 2013, 02:19 PM »

Nice. Never caught one.

fishertom34 · « **Reply #54 on:** Jan 18, 2013, 09:37 PM »

Quote from: muskyon46 on Nov 25, 2012, 10:46 PM

made our 1st ice trip to the high country friday and found some safe ice that had plenty of willing tigers

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pretty cool how the color can very in these fish

very nice and rare too i am i NY,i don't think we even have any,it seem massachusetts and Connecticut do !!!

catfish20 · « **Reply #55 on:** Jan 19, 2013, 06:18 PM »

ive cought both stocked and wild tiger trout, read into it they do occur as a hybrid where brookies and browns and mix. Seems to occur in places where brookies outnumber browns and so a male brookie manages to get a "shot" in there without being buillied off by a larger male brown. still conditions have to be perfect as mortality is high. its much easier for the fry to survive in a hatchery and because they look cool private hatcheries raise them and fish and game clubs like to buy them and stock them. thats where the hatchery ones usually come from, here in NY at least.

eyeslayer · « **Reply #56 on:** Jan 20, 2013, 10:22 PM »

I've got to catch one of these

hi_tail · « **Reply #57 on:** Feb 12, 2014, 11:19 PM »

Cool man!
I used to catch these things all the time as a kid.
I haven't seen one in years.

mike304 · « **Reply #58 on:** Feb 13, 2014, 11:49 AM »

They are almost as pretty as Arctic Char!

deadsmelthead · « **Reply #59 on:** Feb 13, 2014, 12:05 PM »

Quote from: gumpy2 on Jan 10, 2012, 07:09 PM

Tigers themselves may be sterile but they are the offspring of a brook trout and a brown. Since both spawn in the fall, any stream that has naturally occuring brooks and browns in it has the chance of producing tiger trout. It doesn't happen often, and isn't common, but yes, they occur in the wild. It seems like for whatever reason, certain watersheds produce them while many other do not.........conditons have to be perfect.

x2 on that I have stream in my neck of the woods with Browns and Brook trout that naturally reproduce.. It hasnt happened consistently but in the past 20 years or so ive caught roughly half dozen Tiger trout.. This is over the course of 20years+ of fishing it 1 or so a month during trout season.. So yes very rare ocurance but it does happen..

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Author Topic: Tiger trout (updated 11-25 with uintah tigers) (Read 17581 times)