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Originally Posted by Bruce Litton
Nice fish. Real good to see a wild brown & there are some for sure. But tigers--they're been crossed between brookies and browns. Browns are actual trout, brookies char, so how that works in the hatcheries, I've always wondered about. But does it really happen in the wild? Aren't any stream acclimated tigers holdovers? Friend of mine caught a nice tiger in the Claremont, but we assume that fish came down from private stocking above. But the Claremont is both loaded with wild browns and has some native brookies too.
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They do hybridized in the wild as well. The stream I fished does not get stocked and is full of wild browns and brookies, and I've seen pictures of tigers from there as well.
From NJ Fish and Wildlife:
"*brook and brown trout, and if you fish the lower section don't be surprised if you encounter an occasional wild tiger trout, the hybrid offspring produced when brook and brown trout successfully mate."
