cape cod salmon

[rckcapefish]

this may be a dumb question but it kinda suprised me.....

i fished a falmouth pond yesterday with my brother and we(him) caught one fish on a black wooly bugger. this one fish was a healthy, 16"+/- salmon. on the massdfw website this pond is only stocked with trout. does this usually happen or did this fish get thrown in by accident?

[MKDeceiver]

Wow that's cool, how was the fight?

They may have had some salmon leftover, or forgot to stock one of the salmon ponds and were on their way home so they decided to dump them at that pond. I think there is dome discretion in how they stock the ponds. YOu got a couple guys cruising around dumping fish on a schedule, but I'm sure it doesn't always work that way.

[chrisn]

Are you sure it wasn't a brown? If you're positive on the ID it's probably as deceiver said. Maybe another angler dumped him in there too. Nice catch either way...16" Salmon/trout on the fly is a good fish in my book!

[rckcapefish]

ill try to post the pic but im pretty sure its a salmon. silver with light brown on top, and all the markings were almost the same color. i have caught brown tout before and this fish looked nothing like those others that were caught.
by the way my brother said the fight was amazing, he usually only fly fishes salt but he said after that hes hooked on doing the trout thing. it would of been an even better day if i had hooked up too!

[rckcapefish]

heres the pic

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg255/dickie147068/dan_pics_013.jpg

[urnhart]

Nice Brown Trout!

[Cheju]

Looks like a brown to me.

Cheju

[BobG]

Looks like a holdover brown trout to me as well.:brow

[DAQ]

In my un-expert opinion I agree that the fish is a brown.

[BOBUP]

I got caught like that too. 1960's in Kennebunk Pond, Maine. My son caught a pale brownie like that and I thought it was a LL salmon. After the story got spread around I realized I was wrong, so I moved away from Maine.

[rckcapefish]

i had never known a holdover would look different thanks for the info i guess i should change the name of the thread to cape cod browns!

[BobG]

Years ago, when my brain wasn't working as well as it does now, I used to do a lot of ice fishing.(#$119) Specialized in trout. I used to catch some AMAZING holdover browns in John's Pond. They were beautiful, fat bellies silver footballs, with brown backs, black spots, and depending on their size, occasional hooked jaws.:brow

[MKDeceiver]

The stocked browns are usually silver in color. The longer they are in the pond, the more they eat natural foods off the bottom and adapt the true nice brown color of a healthy brown trout.

I can't tell if it's the camera, my computer or if that fish is truely that silver to tell if it's a holdover. Then again the fish could be silver and a holdover, sometimes food sources are limited, the fish have a tough winter, can't fatten up and display nice colors in the spring...

[Huf-fly]

The jaw on the the brown trout extends past the eye
which it looks like it does there and on a land locked salmon it goes only equal the eye or to the middle of the eye. Also you can identify by the Vomerine teeth on the roof of the mouth, I think if I can remember correctly the teeth on the roof of the mouth for a brown runs in a zig zag pattern while the teeth on a LL Salmon run in a parallel line. The last time I took the NH guide test was a long time ago but i think that is right. Any way nice brown trout
Sincerely,
Erik Hufnagle

[SENATOR]

The best indicators of a trout vs. salmon are in the mouth and tail.

The mouth of a salmon does not extend beyond the eye where a brown trout usually does. The tail of a salmon is distinctly forked with sharper tips where a trout's tail is not really forked and more rounded. Also the salmons body is thinner and more streamlined back toward the tail.

I can't really see the tail in that photo but I'd say it's a brown.


NICE FISH!:)

[PEC54]

I took several of those light colored browns from the Deerfield river under the dam in Monroe several years ago, they were a silvery bronze loaded with black spots in circled with red and yellow. I must of arrived right after the stocking truck , as I preceded to catch 22 rainbows in about 2 hours in the same spot.--127-3-:brow