Plan B Unicorn - 1/12/19

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Originally Posted by Chrisper4694

all i know is it jizzed all over my damn arm and reels...

Now all you need is a source of brown and salmon eggs...and you'll figure it out...science!

Found this on line.

Landlocked salmon have brown, green or blue backs with many small black spots. The sides are silvery and the dorsal fin also has large black spots. During the spawning season, the colouring becomes more bronze and the males develop red spots on the body.

If I had to guess I would still say with the position of the mouth relative to the eye and dots above the lateral line, this is a young male LL in spawning colors. If you look close, there are some faint black markings and the tail looks slightly forked as opposed to square.

I'd still send it to F&G for their opinion.

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Originally Posted by dakota560

Found this on line.

Landlocked salmon have brown, green or blue backs with many small black spots. The sides are silvery and the dorsal fin also has large black spots. During the spawning season, the colouring becomes more bronze and the males develop red spots on the body.

If I had to guess I would still say with the position of the mouth relative to the eye and dots above the lateral line, this is a young male LL in spawning colors. If you look close, there are some faint black markings and the tail looks slightly forked as opposed to square.

I'd still send it to F&G for their opinion.

Could be.. I have caught hundreds of LL, and never saw one with that much bronze coloration.. they are always silvery all year, at least here in cayuga lake.. The backs are typically greenish to almost black.. The tails always have a more forked appearance..

to be fair, local populations probably have differences I am unaware of, as the ones I catch all come from the same place, and are all hatched at the same facility.. they do not reproduce successfully here in NY state.... bob

Bob....there was another article I came across yesterday which did say habitat factors into coloration. Not sure if that meant water coloration, forage fish, bottom structure etc or all of the above but it did mention color can be effected by habitat. I'm planning on attending the F&G meeting this Saturday, will try showing the picture to some people with better knowledge than me and see what their thoughts are.