I have commented before that when you spend enough time in the field or on the water, you will see some unusual things. Pointy-headed fisheries biologists handle thousands of fish. Sure, we see some exceptionally large specimens and occasionally we see some other oddities. Unusually-colored fish get a lot of attention. The “interwebs” often have photos of oddly-colored fish or fish with other weirdness. I believe part of the reason for the occurence of those oddities is fish produce so …
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I got drawn into an on-line discussion the other day about the variable colorations of rainbow trout. The discussion got me thinking about the different colored rainbows I have caught from a variety of Nebraska waters. I put together a little “collage” of some of them: Rainbow trout are a species that has been “domesticated”. They have been selectively bred to be easy to raise in a hatchery. As a result, there are a variety of different “strains” of rainbow …
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