Post By: Pappy4 Posted: 1/30/2018 12:33:31 PMPoints: 0
Not 100% but pretty sure I caught a small splake yesterday at Turquoise. Talked to game warden and he has no doubt there in there but hasn’t heard of any being caught. Wasn’t a brook, and was strange looking to be a Mack. Definite forked tail, gold colored, and pretty spots. Bummed I didn’t take picture.
I thought I caught one up there too. I fished it MLK weekend. I messed up and didn't get a picture of the tail, but it sure looked like a splake to me. Without a picture of the tail its almost impossible to say for sure but he looked different than any of the lake trout I pulled out that day and I caught him in about 20 feet of water on a tiny little jig.
^ brook trout. You guys have to ask yourself the ? Why would they stock a expensive hybrid in a lake all ready full of the parent fish. Then again we kinda need to ask our selves some more ?
That was no brook trout. If anything it was an oddly colored lake trout. The tail was all laker which is what made me think splake due to the coloring. I messed up when I didn’t get a pic of the tail but I was moving fast to get him back in the water.
Reply by: Bwallace10327 Posted: 2/3/2018 8:24:34 AM Points: 204
That is no brook trout. I am leaning toward little lake trout. Splake don't HAVE to be stocked... that can happen naturally. That is unlikely, but the 2 wild tiger trout I've caught were very unlikely as well.
I have caught a few splake in my life, 1 at Antero in 2011 and 3 at a high-like which splake were stocked to reduce the population of tiny brookies. They each had more brook trout color. In the provided photo, the red/oragne hue on the back half of the fish may or may not be reflection from the red vest.
riper69 I've caught small lakers the same day same spot where some were drab and some had full rich colors... Just my opinion for as little as it's worth
