Italian Brown Trout

[Fishidiot]

Stillwaters,
The brown in your pic is a beauty but nothing unusual.

It's not uncommon, if you closely at wild brown trout, to see
multi-colored halos around spots. These are often light blue, like a brookie, and are particularly common around the red spots that are mid flank.

 

[Fishidiot]

Never having fished in Italy, I certainly can't speak from experience. Very broadly speaking, however, if you look at pics of European trout, esp those in the Mediterranean or south Asian areas, they do tend to look strange to our American eyes. I have seen some articles depicting Italian trout and they do seem to have especially bright red spots, and more and bigger ones, than we're used to seeing.

 

[Chaz]

Fishidiot wrote:
Stillwaters,
The brown in your pic is a beauty but nothing unusual.

It's not uncommon, if you closely at wild brown trout, to see
multi-colored halos around spots. These are often light blue, like a brookie, and are particularly common around the red spots that are mid flank.

+1
I've found no reference in any books I have about the OP's trout. It's probably a hatchery freak enhanced with photo shop.

 

[troutbert]

Fishidiot wrote:
Never having fished in Italy, I certainly can't speak from experience. Very broadly speaking, however, if you look at pics of European trout, esp those in the Mediterranean or south Asian areas, they do tend to look strange to our American eyes. I have seen some articles depicting Italian trout and they do seem to have especially bright red spots, and more and bigger ones, than we're used to seeing.

Agreed. I found some photos online of Italian brown trout that also had very large red spots. The spots were not as screaming red as in the photo shown on this thread, which I think just had the color saturation pumped up more, so that red looks more scarlet than would be actual case on the fish. But those very large red spots on Italian trout apparently are for real.

You'll see quite a lot of variation in brown here in the US, but apparently there is even more in the "old country." Probably many of the varieties never got imported here. I'd love to catch some of those Italian brown trout.

 

[afishinado]

Olive oil, onions, garlic and oregano...

 

[RCFetter]

The Orvis article I linked to mentioned the the video
"A Pesca con la Neve" so I googled it came up with this video:

A Pesca con la Neve

It's only 51 seconds long. At 35 seconds there's the trout with the screeming red spots.

 

[JeffK]

Here is an interesting site on the strains of brown trout. Pictures arent't the best, but you get an idea:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/bb-old/prodohl/TroutConcert/TroutConcert.htm

The Mediterranean drainages all the way around to North Africa were not glaciated and have a wide diversity of brown trout. Northern Europe was relatively recently recolonized after the glaciersl retreated and have fewer strains. However, that is where we get our browns (mostly Germany and Scotland).

Two very cool brown trout groups are the Adriatic trout which have big red spots and the Marble trout of Slovenia. In Europe there is concern that many native strains of brown trout have been destroyed by indiscriminant stocking - sound familiar?

 

[Kill3ducks1deer]

Sweet video RCFetter

My guess is they have the spots on the backside fin like that so predators to and hit that instead of going for there head. Some other fish have similar characteristics to avoid predators

 

[wsender]

afishinado wrote:
Olive oil, onions, garlic and oregano...

fresh tomatoes, a mildly sweet white, smoked salt.

 

[ratgunner]

la trouta

 

[barbless]

Stillwaters, brookies never have any black spots. They always have some yellow spots.

And brown trout never have any yellow spots. They always have some black spots.

That's how you tell the difference.

 

[wildtrout2]

I'm getting mixed info on these trout from the various posts. Some say shopped (which is what I initially thought), while others say these trout do indeed exist. Those colors are a bit too vivid to be believable. I think there's been some enhancement, which they really didn't need. It does break the monotony though! lol

 

[Spats]

I thought Italian Trout wore gold chains...?

 

[krayfish]

Being Italian, I'm offended by the previous post. Please apologize.

 

[The_Sasquatch]

Italian trout are the ones that are really, really loud when they're eating, right?

 

[Mountainbrookie]

I'm not convinced that they're photoshopped. I've caught wild browns with red spots just as bright as those, however they weren't as large or as numerous. If they had as many as those fish they'd look very similar. I've also caught wild browns with pale red spots.

If they bumped up the saturation or used a filter it would also show in the hands that are holding the trout. That is unless they went out of their way to edit the pics. Just because it's something you have never seen before isn't a reason to jump to conclusions. I have caught natives that were unbelievably colored and others that were as dull as a rock.

 

[Mountainbrookie]

RCFetter wrote:
The Orvis article I linked to mentioned the the video
"A Pesca con la Neve" so I googled it came up with this video:

A Pesca con la Neve

It's only 51 seconds long. At 35 seconds there's the trout with the screeming red spots.

I think that proves that there was no photoshop involved here. Unless they photoshopped the video. :lol:

 

[ratgunner]

Not photo shopped. I wonder if garlic scented flies would work though

 

[krayfish]

Why are people so hateful. I'ma jus wanna catcha da trouts.

 

[The_Sasquatch]

I just assumed that if it was an Irish trout, my Italian brethren would be givin' us paddys all kinds of hell!