ID this Fish: UPDATED...Salmo....
 

Alright, here's a poll for the Identification of this fish.

Please select your ID and if you wish post the character (colour, shape etc) you are using for its ID.

This fish was caught in Canada.

My vote is on Brown Trout....Why? cause its a brown trout? Black spots with few or none on the tail is the reason.

LC

atlantic salmon

definitly an artic char

I voted Largemouth Bass :)

thats a spawned out atlantic salmon. AKA "slink". its a salmon that over winters in the river before it returns to the ocean.

atlantic salmon

Why not include those physical characters that determine what you think this is?

Lefty, thanks for including the description of the characters!

slightly forked tail

Its a SQUAB

Haha, what the hell is a Squab?

His name is Ted :)

the spots and coloration along with the square tale. the fact that it looks scrawny and pathetic tells me its a slink lol

LMAO....ROFL.... I was thinking he looked more like a Rory.....

LC

After a short talk I found out that slippery ****er's name was Steve H.

i just googled squab....i believe Horse is correct
short latin name of the species

I thought this was a squab?

Short for a latin name? Generic or specific?

All I could think of was Squalus

Ya we caught lots of them in Ontario

thats a pigeon

latin i believe.......its on a salmonoid list from a fish scientist

:snapoutofit: No way....that's..."Lucky"!

this was always a big issue when I was living in Maine because we had landlocked atlantic salmon, sea run atlantics, and browns. Most of the time you can tell from a decent picture, but other times it is almost impossible to tell without actually examining the fish. My vote, though, is Atlantic Salmon, based on the short mouth alone.

That be Walter.

Was he caught On Golden Pond?

yup the Squab species...originating from the St Croix water shed

it's not actually a species per say, but a sub-species of atlantic salmon you are referring to. Atlantic salmon = Salmo salar Atlantic Squab Salmon = Salmo salar squabdidae

thats it i couldnt fnd it again...thanks

anytime...anyhow Atlantic Squab if he caught it out of the St. Croix watershed, Atlantic salmon if he caught it somewhere else...but I think horse was right originally it does look like it might be a Squab...

how big does the Squab species get?

I see another fish biologist picked Brown Trout

-well browns have that indago blue spot on there cheek theres no sign of it
-slightly forked tail
-Short and stubby mouth
-Spots dont follow through


Where did you catch him?

I don't know how big they get, infact I can't find a whole lot of info on them accept from the Scott/Crossman book i have called Freshwater Fish of Canada - it just briefly mentions them in the Atlantic Salmon section and talks about wether or not they should be a considered a sub-species or not. That book was written like 40 years ago and I know they are still a sub-species today so that argument must have not held up. Someone needs to start a wikipedia entry for them.