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An angler will spot a clearly visible ‘golden’ finning in the current and spend the rest of the day trying to catch the finicky fish.”Īccording to, “The golden rainbow may be the most beautiful of all trout.” The Web site of California’s Santa Ana River Lakes trout park explains that the reason for their “desirability” is that they “look like neon lights shooting through the water.”Īnd this effusion from the “Outdoor Passion” (TV show) team, which devoted a program to the pursuit of these mutants in Quebec’s Lanaudière region: “This glowing fish with its bright colors is so beautiful that you have to tangle with a golden at least once in your lifetime. As the Daily Progress (Charlottesville, VA) newspaper accurately reports: “Golden trout are among the most sought-after species of trout that are stocked today. Wisner has it right about the popularity of pigment-impoverished rainbows. “If you were trying to maintain a population in a stream, it wouldn’t be very successful because every predator out there sees them.” “They’re very visible to predators,” Wisner continued. “Everybody” includes herons, otters, ospreys, pike and bass. “Our goal is to provide them for variety and so that people can experience the golden rainbows ” “Everybody likes them because they’re such an unusual fish,” declared Brian Wisner, hatchery director for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, which fashioned what it called “palomino trout” out of golden stock acquired from West Virginia. I think a lot of that is because you can see them better, and everyone casts to them.” “Goldens account for about 10 percent of our total rainbow production,” West Virginia’s assistant chief of coldwater fisheries, Mike Shingleton, told me. But it’s the mutant alien, not the native brook trout, that appears on the wildlife division’s logo.
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The state has 500 miles of brook-trout streams. The first of these freaks were stocked in 1963, in celebration of West Virginia’s centennial. About 300 of her offspring turned as yellow as ripe bananas. They carefully reared her in a separate raceway, then fertilized her eggs with milt from normal hatchery stock. In 1955 a mutant female rainbow deficient in pigmentation turned up in one of the Wildlife Division’s hatcheries - to the delight of West Virginia fish managers who, one can easily imagine, rubbed their hands together and cackled, “It’s aliiiiive! It’s aliiiiive!” West Virginia concocted the “golden rainbow” or “West Virginia centennial golden trout,” now de rigueur in states and provinces from North Carolina to Quebec to California.