Stocking tiger trout?

[OwlRNothing]

I was reading they are more resistant to it but who knows.

If they are, I haven't heard about it. That isn't saying that me not hearing about it means anything. But I'd hate to see a full scale swap from browns and brookies (when possible ) for all tiger trout. That would get old. Or would it? To each his own.

 

[flyrod444]

From what little I know, I think Tiger Trout are more expensive to produce, so there should not be more than a novelty amount stocked. Here is a picture of a big tiger one of my clients caught. It had been stocked this size a year before near a section of stream I fish. They moved all up and down the stream after being stocked. It hadn't grown over an inch in a years time in the stream.

 

[trout maharishi]

That's a nice looking fish for a stocker flyrod. I like catching the wild ones I think I may have caught 4 or 5 of them in 50+ years of fly fishing.

 

[NCHillbilly]

That's a nice looking fish for a stocker flyrod. I like catching the wild ones I think I may have caught 4 or 5 of them in 50+ years of fly fishing.

I have caught a couple stocked ones, but never a wild one in 40+ years of fly fishing.

 

[lampern]

As I understand it, the DNR in Georgia doesn't spawn any trout but gets the eggs from other sources to hatch.

Can anyone confirm?

So it might make getting tiger trout very expensive or impossible

 

[NCHillbilly]

As I understand it, the DNR in Georgia doesn't spawn any trout but gets the eggs from other sources to hatch.

Can anyone confirm?

So it might make getting tiger trout very expensive or impossible

The last batch NC stocked was an accident, according to a biologist I talked to. Somebody at the hatchery mixed up brown trout eggs with brook trout eggs.

 

[lampern]

I looked and only western states raise tiger trout.

Plus West Virginia

 

[lampern]

Tiger Trout in Virginia

A tiger trout is a sterile hybrid created with a female brown trout and a male brook trout. Although it’s rare, tiger trout do occur in the wild naturally.

dwr.virginia.gov

Virginia is stocking them now

 

[Resica]

I've never caught a wild Tiger.

 

[lampern]

Doesn't Pennsylvania stock tiger trout?

 

[Resica]

Doesn't Pennsylvania stock tiger trout?

Maybe. Not that I'm aware of. They stock brownies, brook, rainbows and golden rainbows.

 

[lampern]

Arkansas tiger trout

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[gobbleinwoods]

Why stock tiger trout? They would take up just as much space in the raceways as others. Wouldn't you rather catch something that if it survives can reproduce and thus the fry would be natives?

 

[Browning Slayer]

As I understand it, the DNR in Georgia doesn't spawn any trout but gets the eggs from other sources to hatch.

Can anyone confirm?

So it might make getting tiger trout very expensive or impossible

If GA wants Tiger Trout, money won't be an issue.

GA does get eggs from other places like any good DNR should. We just got eggs from Montana that will help us through 2023 due to a flood.

Georgia Trout Hatchery Receives 222,000 Eggs From Montana

Despite losing more than 17,000 trout in a Labor Day Weekend flood at its Summerville Trout Hatchery, WRD is making good on its promise that it will not let the near disaster affect trout stockings in 2023. The hatchery just received 220,000 rainbow trout eggs from Ennis, Montana. It is the...

gon.com

I wouldn't mind catching a Tiger in GA.

 

[lampern]

Why stock tiger trout? They would take up just as much space in the raceways as others. Wouldn't you rather catch something that if it survives can reproduce and thus the fry would be natives?

Why stock tiger trout? They would take up just as much space in the raceways as others. Wouldn't you rather catch something that if it survives can reproduce and thus the fry would be natives?

Because trout stocking is put and take.

You stock the trout and people catch them and take them home to eat.

Wild trout reproduce on their own and are not stocked.

The reason for stocking tiger trout is just something different to catch and grows bigger than your average stocked trout

 

[lampern]

Tiger Trout - Arkansas | Flys and Guides

Tiger Trout Arkansas Tiger Trout introduced to the White River In early June of this year the Arkansas Game and Fish Department, released 2,500 tiger trout into the White River system. It has been the first time the species has been introduced into river and the conservation department will be…

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Tiger trout, are often stocked in waters in the western and northwestern United States. This is the first time they have been stocked in the State and for the most part is an experimental stocking without any guarantee that it will happen again.

They were released just below the dam at the boat ramp on the Baxter county side with hopes that many would stay in the catch and release section of the river and have a higher chance of survival over the up coming years.

So how did the AGFC get so lucky obtaining these little deviations from the norm in the trout world?

They were acquired via trade as fingerlings from a hatchery in Wyoming in April 2019, in the exchange for channel catfish and crappie.

Arkansas got theirs from Wyoming

 

[gobbleinwoods]

Because trout stocking is put and take.

You stock the trout and people catch them and take them home to eat.

Wild trout reproduce on their own and are not stocked.

The reason for stocking tiger trout is just something different to catch and grows bigger than your average stocked trout

Grow bigger in the week that they have from the put and catch?

 

[lampern]

In the Hooch tailwater they could grow year around.

I would try them there

 

[Browning Slayer]

In the Hooch tailwater they could grow year around.

I would try them there

What do you actually know about the Tailwater? If someone wanted to try Tiger trout ANYWHERE in GA in a put and take away stream you would have more takers.

Trying to screw with arguably the best Brown Trout Fishery in the South would get some negative push back. You could dump them in the head waters and probably never hear many complaints.

 

[NCHillbilly]

Because trout stocking is put and take.

You stock the trout and people catch them and take them home to eat.

Wild trout reproduce on their own and are not stocked.

The reason for stocking tiger trout is just something different to catch and grows bigger than your average stocked trout

What few stocked tigers I have caught and seen others catch were not bigger than other stocked trout. Smaller than a lot of the rainbows and browns, actually. Never saw one over about 11".