Written by: Len Harris
Photos by: Len Harris
Photos by: Len Harris
*Current American Angler Magazine* has Tiger Trout article in it and I am referenced in the article. See bottom of this blog entry.
This hole produced a Female Brown and Male Brookie and a Male Tiger. The next three photos of trout were caught in this hole
Female Brown
Male Brookie
Male Native Tiger TroutThe tiger trout is a sterile hybrid cross between a female brown trout and a male brook trout. The fish exhibits unusual markings found in neither parent. Tiger trout are rare in the wild, appearing only in areas where brook and brown trout share spawning grounds.
This interspecies cross is unusual, in part because each fish belongs to a separate genus (Salvelinus for brook trout and Salmo for browns). It happens rarely in the wild, but can be (and is) easily performed by fisheries biologists or hatchery technicians.
A typical tiger caught in the wild is between 8 and 16 inches long.
Tigers are pretty fish. The normal vermiculations (wormlike markings) found on the backs of most brookies become enlarged and often contorted into stripes (hence the name 'tiger'), swirls, spots, and rings. The trout also exhibit a greenish cast, which lets you know, when you hook one, that there is something different on the end of your line long before the fish is in hand.
Tigers are pretty fish. The normal vermiculations (wormlike markings) found on the backs of most brookies become enlarged and often contorted into stripes (hence the name 'tiger'), swirls, spots, and rings. The trout also exhibit a greenish cast, which lets you know, when you hook one, that there is something different on the end of your line long before the fish is in hand.
Field & Stream Tiger Article I wrote:
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More TIGER Trout
Bob Skoronski Green Bay Packer Great with one of four tigers he has caught.
Tony Noll and his tiger. 
Ron Skoronski and his tiger.
Bruce Ristow and his tiger.
Frank *goat boy* Dennallo and tiger
Todd Hanson and tiger.
John and his first Tiger Trout 
Jim Hawley and his tiger.
Len *spinner* Harris with one of eight tigers he has caught.
For those of you that missed where a Tiger Trout comes from the below trout************************************
It is a cross bewteen a male brook trout and female brown.
A Male Brookie
Female Brownvideo of Midwest Outdoors Television catching the first Tiger Trout **EVER** on air.
American Angler Article is below:
This tells me that the trout was stocked.
Wisconsin stream born tigers look like their
fathers (brook trout)
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