Help me identify this trout

I was fishing a sand county brook trout stream this weekend when I caught a trout unlike anything I have ever seen. It was the shape of a brook trout, but it was completely silver, and the fins had no color or markings at all. It was about 8" long, too short to keep for this stream, otherwise I would have taken it to DNR for identification.

At first when I had it on the line I thought it was a chub because of the color. When I held it up to the light, there were about 8 very, very faint yellow spots on the body. You had to turn the fish in the light to see the spots because it looked completely silver looking straight on it.

Can anyone help me out with this? My dad said it might have been albino but it wasn't a white or cream color, it was a brilliant silver.

Nice Tiger Trout. This year I took a friend from Winchester to the Coulies and he caught his first Tiger. It was the biggest I had seen live, 11 inches.

I can guarantee you with 100% accuracy that that fish is actually a young tiger trout, probably native. It is a cross between a brown and brookie. I caught one in pierce county on the Rush River, and the fish was verifyed by the wis DNR

Great Catch very rare

Wadu

seaforellon brown trout? If that stream was stocked at one point or another that is a very good possibility.

Yeah they can appear almost blue sometimes. That would be my guess some of the tigers are very very colorful and some are just like you said dull and sliver looking.

just read google wikipedia on brook trout and it says a brook and brown trout hybred is a tiger trout i guess very rare but they have a pic of them and one is silverish

No bull trout in Central WI

Not sure where you are at, but I was just reading this http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_trout it may be a long shot, but the description matches what you described

LCH, it was identical to that fish. Could you PM me what stream you caught it on? Any idea what it is?

Most likely just a Brookie. Probably female. I've caught similar ones. Depending on the body of water fish with very muted markings are not all that uncommon, especially if they are small. In lake, and some spring pond, environments Brookies often appear very silver. That fish you caught will darken up in fall.

Could be a cut-throat trout! Sounds like one to me.

Sounds like a golden trout to me. If you go to Bobwhites on Hwy 141 just south of Coleman WI, he has a couple ponds full of them. They are native to the Dakotas

There may be a chance that it was a very young splake. A splake is a hybrid cross of a male brook trout and a female lake trout.

It didn't have scales like a brown...thats why it reminded me of a brookie.

Did it have scales like a rainbow or brown or was it scaleless like a brook trout. A brook trout is actually a char and not a trout.

My wife used to work for the DNR and we actually lived on the state trout hatchery property. One time a bunch (thousands) of the coho we were raising got away because of some flooding and they made it to the trout stream and away they went. People were catching them for several years.