I'm gonna have to say a seaforllean on that one. That fish looks to have a square tail, usually a dead give away of a brown. From what I've heard the way you can tell the difference between a seaforllean and an atlantic, is an atlantic has more of a forked tail as opposed to the browns which have a square tail. The story of that fish was posted on the Wi reports on the steelheadsite, and was caught in a Wi trib.

You guys ever consider a hybrid?
Maybe?

Hellow!!!

What did you think I just said in my above posting????

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Titanium, steelhead are Onchornynchus mykiss, same genus as pacific salmon. Atlantic salmon are Salmo Salar and brown trout Salmo trutta, same genus, different species, but both are a different genus than steelhead, so atlantics and browns are more closely related to each other than to steelhead. All are family Salmonidae. Do I still remember my Fish 101 or what

Showed that pic to my Aunt Bobbi, a Lake Michigan salmon slayer if there ever was one, and she said it was a brown trout and has caught several that were bigger. I'm convinced

Do I get a prize?

I say brown as well. You should see a fresh sea trout (sea run brown) They are pretty darn chrome, almost like a chrome atlantic.

It's a brown without a doubt. We get some incredibly big lake run browns on the Lake Michigan and Lake Ontario Tribs. That fish was posted on a Midwest board that I frequent.

We have two types of browns that are planted in the tribs. They stock the German Browns, and a Seeforallen Brown. The Seeforallens' get really big (crowding the 30 pound + mark) and are really a hit with the shore and breakwater anglers. Cathcing a 15 pound plus brownie in the fall, is far from impossible. A few rivers that are only a few miles long, get in excess of 20,000 brownies coming in to spawn in the fall. Many of those are full blown toads. There are many rivers that get plantings of browns that total near 100,000 fish. With great returns, the river and shore fisheries for trolling and drowning spawn bags, are fantastic. You can go to the Wisconsin DNR website, and see the stocking reports for each river.

The Seeforaalens' also are light in color (almost chrome) when coming in from the lake, and have telltale "x" black marks on the backs, down to the midline. They are fat as toads, bot don't have the football look like the German browns.

That fish caused alot of excitement for a handful of guys who had trouble recognizing it as a Seeforallen. We go through tthe same thing, when someone actually catches a chrome bright coho in a river, and starts talking about the nice stelie they caught. No matter what it is, it's still a great fish. Take care, and Happy Holidays. <img border="0" alt="[santa]" title="" src="graemlins/santa.gif" />