Thursday
Sep242009
Sept Slab of the Month Entry: Tiger Trout
Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 12:00AM 
Ken Browning catches a tiger (trout) by the tail. These boys unquestionably kick ass during the wolfing hour.
Biggest tiger we've ever seen. You? September is officially en fuego.
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Reader Comments (21)
NOPE
hold it closer to the camera so i can get a good look
Test tube freak.
Sorry we dont take lame traditional grip and grins, the fishes tail is at my chest, its 27 inches long, some part of the fish is going to be in the lens regardless.
biggest tiger that i've ever seen.
hatchery or wild fish?
It's too bad this fish was straight out of a rich boy fat farm. Tiger trout + dog food = fat hog
nice fish, ken, you look as surprised as the fish is
That is a very nice fish...I have caught wild tiger trout before, but about a 1/3 of that size....Great catch
Nice one! got me beat in the Tig department
sweet fish and sweet picture. reading hate on this blog is getting fucking old. it's a fly fishing blog, relax.
Nice fish!
In response to some of the above posts:
Almost all tiger trout are hatchery fish as they are the progeny of both a brook trout and a brown trout. There have been some documented cases of this happening "naturally" obviously only where there has been an introduction of at least one of the two species because their native ranges do not overlap. I would be very skeptical of anyone claiming to have actually caught a "wild" tiger trout, all though it is not entirely impossible.
Just to clarify my above post; tiger trout are hybrids and consequently sterile. This is why they are capable of such rapid growth. The energy that would be used for reproduction is available for somatic growth; just like triploid rainbows.
It was on a private natural spring system in wyoming, not exactly hatchery, but it is in somewhat of a controled environment, but we couldnt get into the big guys in the daylight, it took going out with mice in the middle of the night. Haters will be haters, it was a hell of a fight and i will take it.
Thanks to all who just appreciate a nice fish....
On a mouse? Sweet! They are cool looking fish. I think any fish caught on a mouse is bad!
Not the biggest I've seen, but nice fish nonetheless.
Nice fish! I can only imagine how sick it was to get it on a mouse. Not the biggest I've seen but definitely a nice fish. For the record, any deviant from the grip and grin isn't always an attempt to make the fish look bigger. Grow up people.
To MarcP, I have pictures of small wild tiger trout. I studied their reproduction in college and know that their is a very small chance that this can happen in the wild. The stream/river system that I caught my tiger trout in has both brown and brook trout that reproduce. Although the one I caught is small, I have seen pictures of some in the 18" range that have come out of the same river system
Damn nice fish, smile man thats a great tiger. I have caught a few wild Tigers as a kid in Wisconsin but they were dinks like 8-12". That is a monster, very cool!!
i've caught at least one tiger that i firmly believe was a wild, stream born fish.
there is a lot of brown and brookie overlap in our neck of the woods. though a wild tiger is rare, it does happen on rare occasion...
nice fish!
I was as surprised by the flash of the camera as the fish. There are more pics on my blog softhacke.blogspot.com. there is a link there to my flickr stuff too.