The trout pair on the spawning nest. The large fish behind is the sea trout female came from the Baltic Sea. It may be easily understood by the absence of red dots on her body. The small fish in front is the male. He has red dots in coloration, and this allows to identify him as the local brown trout its the sedentary form of this species living in fresh water all its life. The most of trout males are small and sedentary, and already at 2 years old they are ready to spawn both with sea trout and brown trout.
A nice 18inch Bonneville Cutthroat Trout cock in Red Butte Creek . Must have washed down from the reservoir up Red Butte canyon? Same guy I caught the other day,I just had to go back and check on him and make sure he was OK, and sure enough he was ;-)
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Learn more about Oncorhynchus mykissX-ray Vision: Fish Inside Out, organized by the Smithsonians National Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), is an exhibit traveling to museums across the country through 2015. Visit www.sites.si.edu/exhibitions/exhibits/ichthyo/index.htm for the tour itinerary.