Ok, I am new to this web site, and even greener to this triploid thing. Can someone tell me if there are any tell-tale markings on triploid rainbows. I would assume not, it's just a genetic thing right??

Basically, triploid rainbows are chubby. If you see a fat rainbow, and I mean fat, not just well fed, call it a triploid.

Rob

These are cookie cutter fish, each fish is about 15-16 inches long with good weight to them. If it isn't that large, you probably have a holdover. A

again the triploids are generraly much fatter, i.e. a bigger girth than length than the rainbows. the triploids that the state is stocking are a pound and a half at stocking and just look like large rainbows. it takes a little time for them to gain the girth that there known for.

It has been my experience a bow that has grown up in a body of water will give you a real good fight where as a triploid will come to the boat pretty easily and will roll over and give up before you get the net wet.

I just wanted to clarify a bit that not all triploids are chubby. Only the ones that have been pen raised and then stocked are overweight, sluggish fighting marshmellows. If the triploids have been stocked as fry, they are incredible fighters and grow much more proportionatly.

I know of two lakes that I frequently fish that have triploids that were introduced as fry and they are a ton of fun. I hope this trend catches on and the pellet fed, full size introduction is downsized a bit.