Larry Catches a Brook Trout on the East Carson River

Larry catches a native Brook trout on the East Fork of the Carson river. He was using a nightcrawler.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Fishing
• brown
• trout
• carson
• river

[radlations]

Brook trouts and brown trouts are not native to california a long with bass, catfish, and panfish.

[neversat]

@radlations It depends how you define "native". I understand that trout are not native to the US originally, however they have been here well over 100 years and in the East Carson River they breed in the wild (i.e. are not planted) so I feel perfectly comfortable saying they are native. Any fish that was born in the wild is a native fish in my book.

[radlations]

@neversat Not really. There is a set definition for native and thats when something is naturally occurring without the influence of humans. So in that area you might have had native cutthroat trout in the past but humans decided to dump in other fish such as brook, browns, and hatchery raised rainbow trouts which outcompeted the true native species.

I think the term you are mixing native with is naturalized. Meaning the nonative adapted and are now reproducing naturally in the new environment.

[neversat]

@radlations Fair enough.

[birdman27000]

definitely not a brown trout. it is of the char family, so it is most likely a brookie. also, on a more picky note, it says in the description that it is a native brown trout, which even if it was a brown, would be inaccurate since brown trout are not native to the united states at all. just a thought...

[neversat]

I'm not convinced. Brookies don't have red spots or white bellies. I still think it was a Brookie/Brown hybrid. I understand that trout are not native to the US originally, however they have been here well over 100 years and most fisherman in California now consider a brown trout to be a native species because they are self-sustaining (as opposed to being planted by the Department of Fish and Game).

[COCKadoodle321]

dang your drag is extremely loose haha... but good job... beautiful fish.

[epraskin]

That would be a brookie my friends, beautiful fish. tighten your drag too unless thats how your real sounds when retrieving :). Tight Lines

[tomatoplot]

Looks like a brookie to me. They usually only have bright orange stomachs during spawning season in fall. I have caught plenty with white stomachs like that. Typically they are the ones that are stocked.

[Survival96]

nice fish