Help with Identifying a fish?

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BloodyHand
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2014/04/20 21:47:10 (permalink)

Help with Identifying a fish?

I caught these in an Erie trib on Saturday. At 1st glance the more Silver 1 looked like a steel and i almost released it. Than I thought it looked like a cross breed of some sort so I kept it. After doing a little research, could it be a small King Salmon?
 
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    mr.crappie
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    Re: Help with Identifying a fish? 2014/04/21 02:17:38 (permalink)
    If it was a King wouldn't it's mouth be black inside? We are catching Browns down here that are more silver thgan usual,they look like rainbows at first glance.  sam
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    rmcmillen09
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    Re: Help with Identifying a fish? 2014/04/21 06:30:38 (permalink)
    resembles a juvenile Atlantic salmon. inside the mouth tells the tail.
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    Re: Help with Identifying a fish? 2014/04/21 07:00:53 (permalink)
    Brokeback hatchery bow?
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    Re: Help with Identifying a fish? 2014/04/21 07:04:11 (permalink)
    Pisces. 
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    Lucky13
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    Re: Help with Identifying a fish? 2014/04/21 07:24:02 (permalink)
    They all look like browns to me, just the middle one has silvered up more.  But a NYS Game Warden I know says the only way to tell the difference between Atlantics and browns is to count the rays in the anal fin.  Who stocks Atlantics in the upper great lakes?
     
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    ddubs3
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    Re: Help with Identifying a fish? 2014/04/21 07:32:02 (permalink)
    3 browns
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    BloodyHand
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    Re: Help with Identifying a fish? 2014/04/21 07:33:01 (permalink)
    I found this site to help identify the fish. It has the teeth markings of a Brown trout, but boy does it resemble an Atlantic with its markings.
    http://www.fishcreeksalmon.org/atlantic-salmon-id.htm
     
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    Re: Help with Identifying a fish? 2014/04/21 09:22:04 (permalink)

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    Re: Help with Identifying a fish? 2014/04/21 09:23:27 (permalink)

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    Re: Help with Identifying a fish? 2014/04/21 09:45:52 (permalink)
    I don't know if that helps or makes it more confusing.
     
    It looks like you have a wonderful example of the variations of brown trout features. The silver one may be a fresh run jack, having spent a year in the lake. Last year's stockies were much smaller than this year's, at least the ones I caught were.
     
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    Re: Help with Identifying a fish? 2014/04/21 10:18:56 (permalink)
    3 browns.. 2 stockers 1 lake run
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    Re: Help with Identifying a fish? 2014/04/21 11:40:45 (permalink)
    tim from harrisburg
    3 browns.. 2 stockers 1 lake run


    ^^^^ This.
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    cbeagler
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    Re: Help with Identifying a fish? 2014/04/22 10:58:56 (permalink)
    D-nymph
    tim from harrisburg
    3 browns.. 2 stockers 1 lake run


    ^^^^ This.



    Yep, that. ^^^^^^
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    Re: Help with Identifying a fish? 2014/04/22 19:24:24 (permalink)
    It's not worth much BH, but I have to concur with others that they are browns. They are very nice pics and helped tremendously. You didn't mention size, but either way- you caught some quality fish, very nice! The one on the far left appears to be very healthy-nice girth as all of them, but that one in particular.
    Dakota Kid--- Excellent posters! I particularly like how variations in a species is displayed.
    post edited by Fish5000 - 2014/04/30 19:31:18
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    Re: Help with Identifying a fish? 2014/04/24 02:30:03 (permalink)
    Everyone is right pal 3 browns 2 pellet heads and a lake run
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    BloodyHand
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    Re: Help with Identifying a fish? 2014/04/24 09:26:05 (permalink)
    Cool, thanx everyone. That would be a first for me. The lake run Brown that is. I get to scratch that off the list. My trout season is about over, time to go after more species on the bucket list.
     
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