Author Topic: pic of weird looking trout i caught in sunapee yesterday (Read 16374 times)

Pruekustoms · « **Reply #30 on:** Mar 06, 2011, 06:58 PM »

your telling me ive spent alot of time out there so far.. and all i got is a couple of cusks and one and a half lakers lol

lavaman · « **Reply #31 on:** Mar 06, 2011, 07:03 PM »

i wonder if the other fish laughed at him?

YOAdrien · « **Reply #32 on:** Mar 06, 2011, 07:20 PM »

it's NOT whirling disease.

New Hampshire lake trout have this issue sometimes, i see 2% of trout caught throughout the season with that. I think 7 so far for my groups. Doesn't hurt the fish at all it's just the way some are born, no big deal.

When we won the 2006 winni derby our laker was 31" and 11 pounds and crooked, but just fine, well until i hit him in the head with a club, but up til then he was fine.

Thats a healthy fish. Seen many more like it just smaller.

wshnIwsfshn · « **Reply #33 on:** Mar 06, 2011, 07:33 PM »

I caught one out of Winni last year ice fishing

Pruekustoms · « **Reply #34 on:** Mar 06, 2011, 07:47 PM »

thanks everyone just sent email and pic to f&g but im sure yoadrien is right

Hooked up bait · « **Reply #35 on:** Mar 06, 2011, 07:50 PM »

YEP I WAS GONNA SAY I WOULD OF KEPT THAT ONE

New Frontier · « **Reply #36 on:** Mar 07, 2011, 03:43 AM »

When I first saw this thread I was hoping to see a rare sunapee trout!

winnisquam guy · « **Reply #37 on:** Mar 07, 2011, 09:53 AM »

regardless if this fish has whirling or not, i am ditching my felt wading shoes for non-felt. we don't want whirling here. it may be here now anyway

AQUAASSASSIN · « **Reply #38 on:** Mar 07, 2011, 01:00 PM »

Quote from: New Frontier on Mar 07, 2011, 03:43 AM

When I first saw this thread I was hoping to see a rare sunapee trout!

Wouldnt that be cool huh? I am 99.9% sure they are extinct. Anyone know as to when the last was was caught or any info on them?

Thumber · « **Reply #39 on:** Mar 07, 2011, 02:32 PM »

Quote from: AQUAASSASSIN on Mar 07, 2011, 01:00 PM

Wouldnt that be cool huh? I am 99.9% sure they are extinct. Anyone know as to when the last was was caught or any info on them?

The Sunapee or golden trout (a char) was also originally present in several other
New Hampshire and Maine ponds. It disappeared from Sunapee around the
middle of the 20th century and is now found only in Maine.

ebour · « **Reply #40 on:** Mar 07, 2011, 02:43 PM »

Why havent they tried capturing a pair and breeding them?

Thumber · « **Reply #41 on:** Mar 07, 2011, 02:57 PM »

Quote from: ebour on Mar 07, 2011, 02:43 PM

Why havent they tried capturing a pair and breeding them?

My two post about the Sunapee Trout are taken from the F&G web site.

The Sunapee golden trout and
other rare char competed poorly with
many other species and needed
physical barriers such as impassable
waterfalls to keep them physically
isolated. Golden trout, in addition to
being in Lake Sunapee, were also
confirmed to be in Dan Hole Pond
and were perhaps in Wachipauka
Pond in Warren and Silver Lake in
Madison. A separate rare char lived in
Dublin Lake; another in Christine
Lake in Stark. The golden trout and
whatever other rare char were once in
New Hampshire have long been gone
from the state. All were crowded out
by the introductions of other species
into their home waters.

New Frontier · « **Reply #42 on:** Mar 07, 2011, 04:29 PM »

I have an Outdoor Life Encyclopedia published in 72' that lists an 11lb 8oz 33" Sunapee trout(Salveninus Alpinus) with a 17 1/4" girth caught August 1, 1954 on Lake Sunapee by Ernest Theoharis. It is still nice to believe some might still exist, though I agree it is highly doubtful.

Trapchaser1 · « **Reply #43 on:** Mar 07, 2011, 05:06 PM »

Whirling dissease? Looks like it was whirled around a bit! That's pretty weird looking. Never seen anything like that before.

iduckhunt · « **Reply #44 on:** Mar 08, 2011, 09:40 AM »

i woulda mounted that weird bugger

Frostheave · « **Reply #45 on:** Mar 08, 2011, 10:22 AM »

It's that damned aerial stocking program! Bends 'em like that every time.

Trapchaser1 · « **Reply #46 on:** Mar 09, 2011, 06:20 PM »

dickbaker · « **Reply #47 on:** Jan 25, 2017, 10:27 AM »

Quote from: Thumber on Mar 07, 2011, 02:32 PM

The Sunapee or golden trout (a char) was also originally present in several other
New Hampshire and Maine ponds. It disappeared from Sunapee around the
middle of the 20th century and is now found only in Maine.

(Image removed from quote.)

F&G assessment was that introduction of lake trout that out competed the Golden Trout?
Dick

Mr.Harry · « **Reply #48 on:** Jan 25, 2017, 10:44 AM »

I'd like to hear definitive answer from F&G biologist what this is. I've caught and released one myself (twisted up laker, not Golden Trout). Have a feeling it won't be the last. Good to know if it needs to removed from the lake and/or gene pool.

zwiggles · « **Reply #49 on:** Jan 25, 2017, 10:51 AM »

Oh no not this again...

I would say harvest it. It is what I have been doing. Better safe than sorry is my thought. I don't enjoy lake trout, but it's protein, and it may help the fishery.

On another note I remember having a discusssion with a local of sunnappee about the golden trout/char. They caught some gigantic ones back in the day after they introduced lake trout. I believe several state records for the golden trout where set and broken up there. This gentleman said he had talked to f&g, and that the golden trout hybridized with the lake trout, and this is why they were catching such large specimens. They also speculated this aided in the decline of the golden trout in NH.

Coffin Dodger · « **Reply #50 on:** Jan 25, 2017, 11:08 AM »

C/O NHF&G

Quote

Distribution: Lake trout are widely distributed throughout northern North America including much of Canada (with the exception of some Hudson Bay Drainages), Alaska, the Great Lakes Region, the northwestern states, and northern New England. Populations are found in several oligotrophic water bodies in New Hampshire. Native populations exist in both central and northern New Hampshire (Squam Lake, Winnipesaukee Lake, Newfound Lake, First Connecticut Lake and Second Connecticut Lake). Stocking programs have introduced self-sustaining populations of lake trout in 17 additional water bodies, increasing their distribution to include more water bodies in the central, southwestern, and northern parts of the state. The species has been introduced in other parts of the world. In parts of the western United States, their introduction has resulted in the displacement of sensitive native trout species.

NHTROUTNUT · « **Reply #51 on:** Jan 25, 2017, 12:31 PM »

I bet that would be hard to fillet

MikeSJ · « **Reply #52 on:** Jan 25, 2017, 12:43 PM »

Looks like this fish from Idaho

http://www.wigglefin.com/Swarm_trout_flashers.html

BrookieSlayer99 · « **Reply #53 on:** Jan 25, 2017, 01:34 PM »

Quote from: dickbaker on Jan 25, 2017, 10:27 AM

F&G assessment was that introduction of lake trout that out competed the Golden Trout?
Dick

I think I read in a fish and game article about it a while ago that they got to very large sizes off of the smelt in the lake. However in a few ponds in maine with bluebacks, smelt can collapse the fishery

dickbaker · « **Reply #54 on:** Jan 25, 2017, 02:07 PM »

Quote from: Mr.Harry on Jan 25, 2017, 10:44 AM

I'd like to hear definitive answer from F&G biologist what this is. I've caught and released one myself (twisted up laker, not Golden Trout). Have a feeling it won't be the last. Good to know if it needs to removed from the lake and/or gene pool.

Best to remove them from the lake??
dick

fullerbn · « **Reply #55 on:** Jan 25, 2017, 02:52 PM »

Quote from: Pruekustoms on Mar 06, 2011, 10:08 AM

he seemed very healthy besides the way it looked it was 24'' and strong i released him after a couple of pics its by far the worst one ive seen i have a large mouth like that before but no way near that bad

Now was that 24 inches all crunched up or fully stretched?

AQUAASSASSIN · « **Reply #56 on:** Jan 25, 2017, 03:21 PM »

Guess my opinion is still the same as 6 years ago, but we know what those are

Fishermen · « **Reply #57 on:** Jan 26, 2017, 04:31 AM »

How do you fillet that

dennisg34 · « **Reply #58 on:** Jan 26, 2017, 04:51 AM »

Quote from: Fishermen on Jan 26, 2017, 04:31 AM

How do you fillet that

You get Michael J Fox to do it for you

MartyMarPlv · « **Reply #59 on:** Jan 29, 2017, 08:03 AM »

He needs to see a chiropractor

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