Credible observer (Fisheries pHD) who was at Douglaston said there was a pink salmon brought up through the lot yesterday.  I remember hearing about some back a long time ago, but this is the first one I've heard of in years.  Keep your eyes and ears posted, when you are out and about, information on these could help determine if it is a stray from a small residual population in the upper GL, or if maybe there is a small odd year  run(they alternate even on the west coast, some rivers are odd year only , some even year only, and some have both runs) established in one of the off the beaten path LO tribs.  I know this is the kid of mystery that gets Dime going, maybe we'll see him and the boys out on the river more often this fall. 
 

Saw one many years ago just after the upper clay changed its flow around the back of the island. 
 

L I saw on a few years ago (10+).  Another was caught on a boat in the lake last week.

caught a pair on the Catt a few years ago

Anybody else ever caught a golden trout in the SR.
I caught two one day or the same one twice.
Gorgeous fish, maybe 12 or 13 inches, more shiny gold that buttery yellow like a brown, with a rich purplish aura, deep purple marks like paar markings and diamond shaped red dots.

Welcome back 2 ,
As for exotic strains , which I shall call , the only ones for me were tiger trout and kokonee . The salmon was up in the adks and the tiger was in the Catskills .
Now back to the temple of doom 😆

Last time I caught a golden it was 2 years ago and it was at 11.000 feet and I had walked in 12 miles to summit the Sierra glacier that fed the stream I caught it in. Those are the true Onynchorus Agauabonita .The  eastern Goldens are actually, and a little more correctly called Palamino Trout that is a strain  developed from a mutant found in a W. Virginia hatchery in 1954.  Still a Onynchorus Mykiss, just like the rustheads.  And no, that's not a Deliverance joke about inbreeding. Really popular on the Rez. waters the Cherokee have in NC.  Tourists love to target them. They are a snaggers wet dream.

The ones that are found in LO tribs are said to originate in PA, who stocks them.  I came upon one in Wyallusing Creek in N. Pa back about 30 years ago and spent the rest of the day trying to get a take.  I doubt a 13-14 incher came all the way down a  Pa trib to LE, through the Welland or over the falls and then all the way to the SR, but a DEC Biologist I know told me that pigmentation mutations are not all that uncommon, so that may be what you encountered.  But your description of the pigmentation is right on for a Palamino.
http://www.fishandboat.com/images/pages/qa/fish/trout_golden.htm
http://www.bing.com/image...+Trout&FORM=IQFRML
 
 

Charlie, a number of years Ago I read about lohonton strain of golden trout. They were referred to as "salmon trout" as they reached sizes over 40 pounds in ThE salt lakes but were thought to be decimated due to over harvest of them. but recently a native wild strain was found somewhere in the sierras and they have been revitalized in many of the salt lakes. I was intrigued, but once I researched it further I saw videos and pics of the crowds that target them. Definitely not my cup of tea..

As for pinks, pretty sure my brother and I saw one back in September of either 91 or 92 in the lfz

Yes, that's around the last time I heard anything of them, too.  Sounds like they may have been hiding somewhere.