<p>I think I remember Pyro mentioning mediterranean trout (salmo cettii) on a thread, it got me thinking that the trout I caught in italy could be something else. I looked over the pictures and they do seem to look a little odd (loads of parr markings and a bit pale.), I did a little research and it seems there are lots of brown trout subspecies and simular species.</p>
<p>so what are these? something special or just plain ol' brown trout? </p>
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Pics not showing up on my end Hugbot. Can't wait to see these pictures of yours.
Hmmmm, they're showing up for me, I'll try to make a gallery and link them to here.
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I finaly managed to get them on photobucket, here goes...
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I would love to see more info on the Europeon trout species.
I know there are a few. Marble trout are amazing looking beasts.
These look like fairly typical young brown trout to me, but here in the US typical brown trout are a 200 year old blend of many of the subspecies. Its like comparing a Shitzu to a Wolf
who would have thought IDing a trout could be so confusing! apparently the brown trout is sometimes split into over 50 species/subspecies, the reason I'm not sure if these are ordinary browns is that they are well within the range of salmo cettii, and they look slightly odd with the long head and relatively large mouth.
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this is the best source I have been able to find, the key features all seem to match up.
http://www.ittiofauna.org/provinciarezzo/fauna_ittica/Schede/schedespecie/trotamacrostigma.htm
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Hey Hugbot,
That was the only link I found. There was a reference posted on FishBase for a book or guide (I think) containing the fish species, but I couldn't find a copy on the net. It pointed to the same people studying the fish though.
To me it is still a little hard to tell, since the ones you caugth were smaller, likely juveniles which would have parr marks. If they were bigger, mature fish with parr marks, I would say they are probably Mediterranean. Since you caught them within the range, they are most likely Mediterranean (as long as there were no stocking of non-native fish in the stream you caught them)...and I would feel at least somewhat safe to call them as Mediterranean. If not, then all bets are off...for me anyways.
@Jknuth - yeah, Marble Trout are rad!
Thanks ken, I don't think any brownies would have been stocked into this stream since it doesn't get fished that much and the only spot were fishing is practiced regularly and stocking may take place is several obstacles below, fish can only travel downstream of these. so I'm happy to call it a lifer.
Thanks again for all your help guys!
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Yay! This means that every fish I caught in Italy was a lifer! This is more than I had ever hoped for, I didn't even know Mediterranean trout existed until now!
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Marbled trout is definately a realistic target for me, I think they are native to the part of Italy that I visit.
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I just looked marbled trout up and they are actually in the river I fish, that would explain some of the odd looking trout I saw from a bridge in porretta terme, I have seen some people fishing there but I think you need the permission of the group that control that section of the river, maybe I can see if I can fish it and tick another species off the list.
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Most likely August next year, my targets will be marbed trout, southern barbel and also any of the species that I don't get good photos of this year.
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I saw some 'seeds in a large lake there once, I think there are probably some largemouths in there too but I'm not sure i I'll be able to fish it since it is quite a long way away and not much of a family day out. but you never knoe, I may get the chance.
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its just a shame theres none in England!
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Yeah, we've had a few predatory fish introduced from mainland europe, the wels catfish and the zander. can't complain really, they're good sport and don't have too much of an impact on native fish stocks. (the wels catfish mostly lives in lakes where the stocking level of other fish is very high, the zander tends to live in rivers and canals, they can eat a lot of fish but most canals have a lot of stunted roach and rudd for them to gorge themselves on.)
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Cool fish Hbot! I had no idea they exsisted either, lots of intersting info in this thread.