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Lateral view of a Male Baetis (Baetidae) (Blue-Winged Olive) Mayfly Dun from Mystery Creek #43 in New York
Blue-winged Olives
Baetis

Tiny Baetis mayflies are perhaps the most commonly encountered and imitated by anglers on all American trout streams due to their great abundance, widespread distribution, and trout-friendly emergence habits.

27" brown trout, my largest ever. It was the sub-dominant fish in its pool. After this, I hooked the bigger one, but I couldn't land it.
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Wbranch
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Wbranch on Nov 12, 2014November 12th, 2014, 2:57 am EST
I have a new Facebook friend and he sent me this picture. It looks like a cross between a Rocky Mountain whitefish and a brown trout. It is not photoshopped.

http://www.balkan-trout.com/slike/studied_neretva_1.jpg
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Millcreek
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Millcreek on Nov 12, 2014November 12th, 2014, 6:41 am EST
Matt,
Pretty cool fish. The photo got me curious so I googled Neretva trout. Apparently quite a bit of flyfishing for it in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Found some more pictures from the University of Toronto http://individual.utoronto.ca/manuesteve/UTsoftmouth.html as well as some spawning footage on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7MPHM7hzCs. Also found a paper on the Neretva River and it's fish here http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i1373e/i1373e03.pdf.
Interesting trout and river, thanks for posting it.
Mark
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RMlytle
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Connecticut

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RMlytle on Nov 12, 2014November 12th, 2014, 12:59 pm EST
Wow! Just added that to my fish wish list.
Jmd123
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Jmd123 on Nov 12, 2014November 12th, 2014, 3:11 pm EST
Guys, check out James Prosek's Trout of the World. He covers just about every species and subspecies of salmonids worldwide, and I remember he's got a pretty good discussion of Balkan species in there, which are quite diverse.

Jonathon
No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere...
Millcreek
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Millcreek on Nov 12, 2014November 12th, 2014, 5:03 pm EST
Jonathan,
Guys, check out James Prosek's Trout of the World.

Another good book is Robert Behnke's "Trout and Salmon of North America" illustrated by Joseph Tomelleri. While it only covers North America I don't think Behnke missed much. Good descriptions as well as the biology and ecology of trout.
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Jmd123 on Nov 12, 2014November 12th, 2014, 6:37 pm EST
Mark, I am familiar with that one too. Joseph Tomelleri is also an amazing fish artist (I have his Fishes of the Central United States, tour de force on the sunfish!), and the contrast in the two styles is interesting - Prosek uses watercolors while Tomelleri uses colored pencils, yet both create drawings/paintings of fishes that I have actually seen and caught on numerous occasions. So, I can guess that the species I don't know are represented accurately!

Prosek has also done his homework and corresponded with Behnke and other salmonid experts...though not to the degree that Behnke and his colleagues have! But he does back up his "coffee-table trout books" with some interesting knowledge.

Jonathon
No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere...
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PaulRoberts on Nov 12, 2014November 12th, 2014, 6:58 pm EST
Brown trout evolved in eastern Eurasia, so there's diversity there. Our stocks of browns are derived from just two varieties. Likely the "odd" mouth of obtusirostris (and lenok) are convergent with whitefish (adaptations to environmental circumstances and not directly related). Here's the trunk page from a site Mark provided, showing salmonid diversity:

http://individual.utoronto.ca/manuesteve/UTphylogeny.html

Click on S. akairos! Pretty cool. (I almost ended up in Morocco, instead of the Philippines.)

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