orange trout?

Check this out.....

This past October, I was comming back from hunting in Modoc when my we decided to make a run threw the Hat Creek area. We stopped at the Castle Hatchery and look what I found.....At first i thought they were carp, but the sign (unreadable, but visible in the background) read "albino rainbow trout."

has anyone seen anything like this?

Looks like they need to take the bird wires down and let the eagles and ospreys do some natural selection!     In other words:  cute, but they don't look like real survivors in the wild. 

They look like "KOY"

I've seen Lake Amador trout with orangish meat but never orangish on the outside.

I've seen those at Nugget market.  They sell as "Golden trout"...  crazy...
& also, my friend send the pics to me once.  He saw them at aquarium in Colorado.

I've seen those at Nugget market.  They sell as "Golden trout"...  crazy...

I think the market term is "Golden Rainbow Trout" not to be confused with the CA state freshwater fish (the Golden Trout).  Oddly, they're often more expensive than regular rainbow (I've seen them at Ranch 99 and they were about $2/lb more).  I guess genetic freaks are considered lucky or something.

I've also heard of people stocking ponds with a few of these among a bunch of regular rainbows.  It's often cheaper than stocking trophy sized fish and gives them a similar sense of catching something rare.

Of course in the real world, as AbKing has pointed out, these little guys get snacked on pretty quickly and their genes tend not to get passed along.

Brian

Don't look directly into their eyes......you'll turn to stone!

plain WEIRD!   kinda like those *Lightning / *Thunder trout....but I would like to get one for a fight&photo op.

In the wild, albino salmonids might survive amonth or two, but when swimming in a school of a couple dozen of your brothers and sisters guess who the predators will all key in on, the outcast.  I've never heard of an adult albino salmonid (salmon, trout or char) caught or observed in the wild except lakes that are stocked with them.  I completed a juvenile dive survey in Prarie Creek in 2001 and saw some albino coho salmon young-of-the-year, only a few though, but again I've never heard of one coming back to spawn.

Two years ago I was fishing the Metolius river in oregon not far from Sisters.  There is a species of trout up therre called a Redband trout... Look a lot like these guys... almost all light in color, pale spots, with a bold red stripe down the side.  They arent genetic freaks as far as I know... just another member of the trout family.

Redbands are just a local subspecies of rainbow trout up here in Oregon.  For some reason they tend to look more like parr as adults, with larger spots than the typical adult rainbow trout.

Redbands are just a local subspecies of rainbow trout up here in Oregon.  For some reason they tend to look more like parr as adults, with larger spots than the typical adult rainbow trout.

Now I know, and knowing is half the battle .. now that you mention it, I guess they do look alot like a juvenile rainbow, except that stripe is sure RED... cool lookin fish

plain WEIRD!   kinda like those *Lightning / *Thunder trout....

I was thinking the same thing.  They put those Thunder mutants in Shadow Cliffs.  The pictures I have seen of them look like orange footballs, with the tail fin rounded out.

What Next Glow in the Dark trout.

What Next Glow in the Dark trout.

Yep. http://www.time.com/time/2003/inventions/invfish.html