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[Greencoachdog]

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[CLofchik]

It's really just a process of elimination, what it's head looks like & what it's tail looks like.

 

In a nutshell, there's really only two fish in the great lakes that will have large black defined spots on the gill plates, brown trout & atlantic salmon. If it DOESN'T have the large spots on the gill plates it's not a brown or an atlantic.

 

If the tail is forked, it's an atlantic, if it's squared off it's a brown trout.

 

Brown:

 

 

 

Atlantic:

 

Edited September 1, 2008 by CLofchik

[Greencoachdog]

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Edited November 11, 2009 by GCD

[CLofchik]

The depth of the fork will vary, but all the ones I've seen from Lake O & The Soo you'll know as soon as you see the tail what you're looking at.

 

Like Master Of Bait's fish, one look at the tail and it's pretty obvious:

 

 

Beats counting pyloric caecae, and it's easier to do C&R

 

 

Heh, should start a post with nothing but tails and see how everybody does

[salmon]

Guys

Check out this site I ran across

 

http://seagrant.wisc.edu/greatlakesfish/atlanticsalmon.html

[kemper]

Example 2...

 

 

A brown trout, and a damn fine one if I do say so myself....

 

Square tail, large spots on the cheek but SILVER. Seems like whenever someone sees a silver brown its OMG you caught an atlantic. Well, no I didnt. I caught a brown.

 

I was pretty skeptical about this latest atlantic that was caught, I was thinking it was just a brown but in comparison to my brown it is pretty clear that it is atlantic.