brookie or splake?

[fishinggeek]

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs534.ash1/31332_390844410795_730605795_4483768_7154821_n.jpg
My Brother caught it and I think it's a splake but we're not sure. :sign0161:

[the holster]

You might want to keep Lake X a secret but it also might help to know where the critter was nabbed.
the holster

[Teamprotz]

Thats alot smaller than YOU"RE used too !

[maddwapper]

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs534.ash1/31332_390844410795_730605795_4483768_7154821_n.jpg
My Brother caught it and I think it's a splake but we're not sure. :sign0161:

im 99 percent sure you have a brook trout mabey a sea run brooky depends where you caught it

[KyleM]

Tough call, would be easier if we could see the tail.
Lake trout have a deep V forked tail, Brookies have more of a squared off tail with a slight indent. Usually you can distinguish as its inbetween both fish.

[chad66]

im 99 percent sure you have a brook trout mabey a sea run brooky depends where you caught it

Ya, i'm leaning towards Brookie myself. Sure looks like vermiculations to me. Do you have pictures of the rest of the fish.....maybe something that shows the tail? Where was it caught? :fishing:

[fishinggeek]

Caught in saskatchewan think piprell, but not 100%. Only pic of this fish as it was released right away. My brother thinks it was a brookie also. Thanks.

[noslack]

Looks like both!!!


Only if we could see the tail! I have caught brookies and splake that have the same pattern as that fish. Only the tail could tell them apart.

[Sundancefisher]

Caught in saskatchewan think piprell, but not 100%. Only pic of this fish as it was released right away. My brother thinks it was a brookie also. Thanks.

Last I checked saskatchewan did stock splake. I would just check the stocking records since you don't have the best picture to judge. Splake are brookie laker crosses....if the lake does not have brookies and lakers...you can sure bet there was not an bizarre cross breeding happening.

[outsider]

Looks more like a small laker to me. Caught quite a few brookies and splake this past winter up at the old mans cabin and their backs were alot darker and they had lots of pinkish spots. Could have been that they are just that way in those lakes. It's really hard to tell the difference between a brook and a splake. It looks to grey to be brook or splake to me.

[Fisher_man#1]

Fairly sure its a brook trout the only thing that holds me back is there are no blue and red spots with halos. It does have a bit of orangish on its fins which is what makes me say its a brook trout. Its a toss up, he can claim the fish be eather if he wants. LoL.

[walleyechaser]

It does kinda look like a splake, kinda hard to tell from that angle how ever

[greylynx]

The vermiculations will place it into the brookie portion of the char family.

[KyleM]

Splake are known to often have the exact markings of Brookies.
Its impossible to tell by colour and markings as Splake can change from one extreme to the next depending on the environment.

Really need to see the tail to decide on this one!

[muzzy]

Small lake trout They have the orange fins No red or blue spots that brookies have

[Teamprotz]

Piprell is now stocked with Splake. Used to have trophy rainbows , you know the story. Provincial record brown did come from there and wasn't supposed to be there . Could be a brookie , but I'd lean towards splake.

[maddwapper]

im the guy with 99 percent brookie ive never seen a splake can anyone show a picture of one this fish looks exactlly like a searun brookie

[McLeod]

I just got back from Piprell a few minutes ago , spent the last 3 days fishing there..Your fish is a Splake .. We caught a few over the weekend. There have been no Brookies stocked in the lake since 04-05 I believe.
If you talk with Richard at the lodge only a couple of Brookies have been caught out of the lake in the last year and they are quite large.

[uicehole]

Pulled this off another web page. "Because of their intermediate nature, many anglers many not realize they have caught a hybrid trout unless they know what to look for. The spots are usually pinkish, although many fish have little or no colour, and the tail is generally intermediate between the deeply forked tail of the lake trout and the square tail of the brook trout. The only positive way to tell is to open up the fish and examine the worm-like projections on the front part of the stomach. These are called pyloric caeca and function in digestion. Lake trout have 100 – 190 of them and brook trout have 20 – 50, and splake usually have 70 – 80. A character such as this is much more reliable than external appearance."