[Sieger Devries]

Hi,

I friend of mine has fished Haddo last week and he caught a pretty 'weird' fish (imo)... It looks like a blue rainbow... but never heard or seen this...
Any off you have an idea what this could be ???

[Hamish Young]

I can't see any photos..... can anyone else

H 

[Peter McCallum]

Nope can't see a photo but from the description they are Blue Trout, a manufactured rainbow varient if I'm not mistaken

[Sieger Devries]

I can't see any photos..... can anyone else

H 

Mmm strange I can...  ???

Are these Blue ones in Haddo ?

[Sieger Devries]

Added the pics from an other site... can you see them now?

[mike]

Certainly looks like a blue trout to me pal . I can see the pics and i believe Raemoir has them too ...

[Sieger Devries]

OK thanks Mike, so this variant is in your water... Never saw or heard of them... Will spread the word on our dutch forum... Thanks!!

[Mike Barrio]

Hi Sieger

That was a lucky catch, blue trout are very rarely caught at Haddo now ....... there aren't many rainbow trout netted at the fishery nowadays, maybe half a dozen a week at the most. Off the top of my head I think there were two rainbows caught last week.

Blue trout are frequently available from fish farms throughout the UK and can be found in many stocked fisheries. They are not a separate species, just a strain of rainbow trout.

I'm very pleased with progress in managing the brown trout levels in the lake this year and I'm really looking forward to next year ...... so the rainbow and blue trout catches will become even more rare

Best wishes
Mike Barrio

[Ben Dixon]

Be good to see some more of those blues go in Mike, small ones like went in before.  Great fun to catch and they'll fatten up the brownies nicely.

Ben

[Mike Barrio]

They'll fatten up the brownies nicely.

    

[Euan Innes]

Be good to see some more of those blues go in Mike, small ones like went in before.  Great fun to catch and they'll fatten up the brownies nicely.

Ben

Probably the Osprey too!
I'd like a couple of Blues back in Mike. I recall that they are akin to being attached to a train   

 

[Sieger Devries]

Thanks guys I will copy your reply on the Dutch forum Mike... Think it will explain things....

[Andy Finlay]

A couple of guys from work call them Hun trout, no prizes for guessing where there from  . I've had a couple at Haddo in the past and they do go like a train.