Could anyone tell me what kinda trout this is? It was a bigger fighter than the rainbows I caught of that size. I noticed that the fish was a lot darker than the rainbows, had a more hooked jaw, white edges on the fins, and was so slippery and scaleless. Great fighter, very limber fish. Almost squirmed out of my hands a couple times. Any help? Brown? Cutthroat?

http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/7300-brown.jpeg

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That's a rainbow trout

It is a Rainbow. It ios most likely a male that thinks it should be spawning. I have caught two trout like that this year while bass fishing, fishing near where water was running into the lake. Both were very dark and had hook jaws, and I found full sperm sacks in both of them when I cleaned them for dinner.

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Any idea why id would not have scales? I checked it out and this fish had none. I caught other rainbows that day and they all had obvious scales, little but obvious. Thats the one thing that had me suspect that it might be a different fish. Now dont get me wrong, im not saying that you fellas are wrong and that it is not a rainbow.

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Sounds wierd.....so you scraped it and got no scales....makes for easy prep before eating...haha

I'm blaming the global warming.... :-)

Where were you fishing? Probably a cutbow.
Cross between a Rainbow & a cutthroat, you will usually see a faint bit of color under the jaw.

Yeah no scales! Crazy fish. That fish (and a couple others that were the same) was caught out of Los Banos Creek Reservoir. Let me tell you friends they fought like crazy!!! I thought I had a 20 inch rainbow on and saw these smaller fish coming threw the clear water towards my net ;) . Dont know if this helps, but two years back someone told me they accidentally planted steelhead in there. I caught plenty of fish that were all silver, shaped like rainbows with no color and most of the time didnt even have any spots. Im a bass fisherman so my trout knowledge isnt that great but the fish in the picture got me thinking they possibly werent rainbows especially the fact that they were scaless unlike the other fish I caught that day.

One more question for you folks...can trout spawn in a lake without running water? I saw some trout at that lake the other weekend and they were only 5 inches long swimming 2 feet from the shore. Looked like my smaller swimbait...they dont plant them that small right?

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Hey guys, since we are talking about fishing, I was at Los Banos Creed in May of this year and hit the back in of the Bass spawn. My son and I were in a Bass Tournament and had a great time, caught our limit of bedded fish. It was pretty easy catching these fish. We went back a week later and threw everything we had and could not catch one fish. I know that there is someone in your Tube Club that knows how to catch the Bass when there off their beds. Will be returning to the lake in a couple of weeks to try again, need your help, I would appreciate your help, thank you.

PS: Tried, senko's, shakey heads, plastic worms, jerk baits, flukes and hard baits. Could see the Bass threw the water but would not bit.