12-10-2002, 03:31 PM
xman,
There are some blue rainbow trout in a trout farm in Smithfield.(just north of Logan) He has a big catch and release pond you can fish. I suggest doing it in winter with a float tube. It gets pretty mossy during other times of the year. The Blue Rainbow that he has is actually something that happens in nature but is very rare. Kind of like an albino. He bumped across it by accident and has just made sure to keep a few brood stock around ever since. It is a recessive gene so if you weren't managing for them and they were released into a wild fishery they would [size 1]disappear[/size] after a few generations. The best way I can describe them is they look just like the blue and white rapalas that you see. Medium to baby blue back with a white belly. It is hard to believe they are a full blood Rainbow. They look like something from the tropics or something. I'm not really big on Albinos or that kind of stuff but this is a cool looking fish and didn't seem to loose it's intelligence like the Albinos.
tightline
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There are some blue rainbow trout in a trout farm in Smithfield.(just north of Logan) He has a big catch and release pond you can fish. I suggest doing it in winter with a float tube. It gets pretty mossy during other times of the year. The Blue Rainbow that he has is actually something that happens in nature but is very rare. Kind of like an albino. He bumped across it by accident and has just made sure to keep a few brood stock around ever since. It is a recessive gene so if you weren't managing for them and they were released into a wild fishery they would [size 1]disappear[/size] after a few generations. The best way I can describe them is they look just like the blue and white rapalas that you see. Medium to baby blue back with a white belly. It is hard to believe they are a full blood Rainbow. They look like something from the tropics or something. I'm not really big on Albinos or that kind of stuff but this is a cool looking fish and didn't seem to loose it's intelligence like the Albinos.
tightline
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