Rainbow males can get very dark in the fall and winter. This would be the darkest I’ve ever seen, but you can still see a shimmer of pink on the cheeks and I’d assume rainbow for that reason.
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Sure it’s a trout? Could be a Kokanee/silver salmon halfway through its transition for mating. Hard to tell from this pic, but those salmon have a deeper V shape in their tail than trout and this one seems to have it.
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Probably a dead one after lipping it like that.
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Its a Brown from what I can gather.
Can you tell us the lake or river?
Rainbow males can get very dark in the fall and winter. This would be the darkest I’ve ever seen, but you can still see a shimmer of pink on the cheeks and I’d assume rainbow for that reason.
Sure it’s a trout? Could be a Kokanee/silver salmon halfway through its transition for mating. Hard to tell from this pic, but those salmon have a deeper V shape in their tail than trout and this one seems to have it.