Salmon and Trout Identification

[efka]

 

[FishingNoob]

Wow! Thanks for posting this! I know have some answers!

 

[sunny14]

GREAT CHART Efka!!

Thanks for Posting that. I was looking for something like that to add to my "Fish Species" file.

Regards: Rick

 

[Rain-Bow]

official CRAA Atlantic Salmon ID poster

 

[skinginboy]

Cool Chart...

 

[kabes]

Last year there was a 50-50 split if this was a Steelhead or a Coho. Looking at the chart the tail has spots all over it leading me to believe its chrome.
Agree or disagree?

 

[JimVellenga]

I think it is a Chinook based on the anal fin which looks more like that of the salmon. I am no expert on that in any way though.

 

[Rain-Bow]

That's definitely a chinook. Coho only have spots on the top part of their tail.

 

[kabes]

yep after some more research I totally agree

 

[AaronKrick]

Last year there was a 50-50 split if this was a Steelhead or a Coho. Looking at the chart the tail has spots all over it leading me to believe its chrome.
Agree or disagree?

I think that a chinook.

 

[AaronKrick]

The stream stage chinook on efkas' chart looks really like they do in the streams.

 

[sunny14]

I put this in the other Forum, "Atlantic Salmon Identification" Thought it wouldn't hurt to put it in here also. It's all the "Scientific Data" on the "Atlantic Salmon"


"Someone" in another Post referred to their "Scientific" Name as "Leapers" because they could Jump very high. Be assured that was NOT correct. Unless it was intended as a Joke.

 

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I put this in the other Forum, "Atlantic Salmon Identification" Thought it wouldn't hurt to put it in here also. It's all the "Scientific Data" on the "Atlantic Salmon"


"Someone" in another Post referred to their "Scientific" Name as "Leapers" because they could Jump very high. Be assured that was NOT correct. Unless it was intended as a Joke.

The name, Salmo salar, is from the Latin salmo, meaning salmon, and salar, meaning leaper, according to M. Barton,[5] but more likely meaning "resident of salt water". Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1879) translates salar as a kind of trout from its use in the Idylls of the poet Ausonius (4th century CE).

the leaper name, could also be a name from long ago as a name that the natives gave the fish due to its ability to fly

 

[sunny14]

The name, Salmo salar, is from the Latin salmo, meaning salmon, and salar, meaning leaper, according to M. Barton,[5] but more likely meaning "resident of salt water". Lewis and Short's Latin Dictionary (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1879) translates salar as a kind of trout from its use in the Idylls of the poet Ausonius (4th century CE).

the leaper name, could also be a name from long ago as a name that the natives gave the fish due to its ability to fly

Thanks.

 

[Just Reel With It]

I have a picture of what is either a speckled trout or....possibly a baby Atlantic salmon...I can't figure it out. Anybody know?

 

[salmotrutta]

I have a picture of what is either a speckled trout or....possibly a baby Atlantic salmon...I can't figure it out. Anybody know?

100% Salmo Trutta (brown trout)

Fyi Speckled trout = Brook trout (which aren't really trout), and browns are speckled but aren't called that (confused yet?)

 

[MuskieBait]

I have a picture of what is either a speckled trout or....possibly a baby Atlantic salmon...I can't figure it out. Anybody know?

It's a juvenile Brown Trout. The maxillary extends beyond the eye (ie, the corner of the mouth).

In Atlantic Salmon, the maxillary does not extend beyond the eye.

Atlantic Salmon has a narrower caudal peduncle when compared to Brown Trout.

The tail of Atlantic Salmon is more forked than Brown Trout, although the tail of juvenile Brown Trout are slightly forked. When mature, the tail of Brown Trout has a distinct straight edge (not forked at all).

 

[Just Reel With It]

Thank you everyone for your answers. Hopefully I can catch myself another one. 😊

 

[MikeFromCanmore]

I'm relatively new to salmon and trout fishing (or at least actually catching them), so hoping someone can help me out here, because even after looking at all of the charts and scrolling through Google Images, I'm still not 100% sure. About 75% though that this is a Coho... but maybe its a small chinook?

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AmIright? Pardon the crappy picture. I realize that without seeing the tail it makes it kind of tough.

 

[Huronfly]

That's a ho