JTegeder Loc: Minnesota

New member. I fish Eastern Minnesota and Western Wisconsin. Most of the time I'm bass fishing but I also like to fish for walleyes, big pike, steelhead-rainbow trout, coho and chinook salmon, brown trout, lake trout, brook trout and crappies. I fish out of a 16 foot Tracker and also ice fish in the Winter. My in-laws live in the Saratoga, New York area so I fish there too.

JRK227 Loc: Cedarburg, WI

Welcome to the Digest. Glad to see another upper-mid-westerner here!

Fredfish Loc: Prospect CT.

Welcome to the stage JTegeder.

Schancer Loc: Hayward, WI

Welcome J.T.
I agree with Uncut6. Not a lot of midwesterners here on the forum. I too love to ice fish as well as summer fish here in the Hayward Lakes area. Lake Superior being close is one of my favorite haunts. I'll try and post a picture of a nice brown trout I caught two winters ago near Madeline Island out of Bayfield, Wisconsin. The temp on that February day was brutally cold, but the fish were cooperating. Good luck fishing.

flyguy Loc: Lake Onalaska, Sunfish Capitol of the World!

Welcome to the Forum, JT. We love pictures. Nice fish Traveler.

Schancer Loc: Hayward, WI

Thanks Flyguy. You must be back in the Midwest by now. I believe your opener is just a couple of weeks away. Good luck fishing.

FixorFish Loc: SW Oregon

Schancer, that doesn't look like any of the many brownies I have ever caught.... but it does look exactly like the LAKE TROUT I have caught..... just saying.

Schancer Loc: Hayward, WI

FixorFish...
I thought the same thing at first. But Lake Superior browns come from deep cold water and are almost always that silvery color unlike the river run browns. It is definitely a brown trout.

OJdidit Loc: Oak Creek Wisconsin

Nice brownie! Our lakers are gray with white spots. 😉

Schancer Loc: Hayward, WI

🦈 Thanks O.J. YES. Different waters produce different colors.

FixorFish Loc: SW Oregon

Looked up the chapter of "brown trout" in a 50yo copy of "Sportsman's Guide to Game Fish".
Sure enough, a whole paragraph on the coloration of brownies in the Great Lakes vs. elsewhere. Apparently they actually can lose their spots nearly altogether when heading up tributaries and streams to spawn. The author, Byron Dalrymple, states that they are often referred to as"salmon" (incorrectly, he adds) or "sebagos" when they go back to "the big water". They also apparently, on the east coast, have found their way to saltwater, (referred to as "salters") and when they return to the streams, they are "silvery and unspotted except for a few X-marks". Which explains why, when looking at the color plates of non-indigenous fish in the Oregon regulations booklet, your fish actually looked more like an Atlantic salmon, or even a Bull trout than a Laker to me.

I must say, that if not for this site and it's far-flung, geographic-wise, membership, composed of several generations and experiences, and colloquial I.D.'s of so very many species of fish, I would certainly be less educated and informed of the incredible variety. I thank you each and every one..... even those of you who simply fish to catch your next biggest/best bass of whichever species, or somehow think that carp are edible ! LOL !

Y'all DO keep me highly entertained while learning so much more about this country/world and it's inhabitants, both human and otherwise.
Thanks again, Stage Members !

Schancer Loc: Hayward, WI

Well stated, Fixor.

FixorFish Loc: SW Oregon

Ya' just never know what tidbit of info will come your way with the impetus of curiosity.
Thanks for that start !

Fredfish Loc: Prospect CT.

Well spoken Fix. Yes we have Browns that travel downstream into the saltwater. We call them Sea run Browns, around here. Virtually all our bigger Trout rivers empty into Long Island Sound.

J in Cleveland Loc: Cleveland, Ohio

I agree totally! That’s why I read ever post! So often I’m reading about salt water or fly fishing two things I don’t do but I still learn something super interesting and/or useful in the fishing I do. Never know where these threads will go or what you can learn!!