Brown Trout
Brown
Trout: Brown trout are indigenous to mountains waters of Central and Western
Europe. They vary in colour form. The two differentiating features of brown
trout are (i) red orange spots on the body (II) edge of the adipose fins
is tipped with red. Trout belong to family Salmonidae which form part of
lthe order Isospondyli, meaning equal ‘vertdbrae’. All fish belonging
to this group have the air bladder connected to the gullet by a pneumatic
duct and the pelvic fins are abdominal in position. It was intr4oduced in
1899. Later the stock was sent to Himachal Ptradesh and Uttar Ptadesh.
Rainbow Trout: Rainbow trout are natives of the Sacramento River region,
on the West Coast of the USAR but have been successfully introduced into
the waters of many countries. The species thrives best in the temperature
ranging between 30 to 150C. There are two types of rainbow trout, the Contonental
which do not migraare to the sea. Their body is comparatively short and
deep; more elongated in males than females. Colour variable depending on
size, age and character of water; silvery on side with irregular located
dark spot and sides showing a red band and blotches; belly merely plain.
It was also introduced for the first time in Kashmir during 1909 and later
distributed to Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh waters.
All in all the Brown trout is a very fine game fish and makes excellent
eating.
The Rainbow that do not breed in the river and are escapees from the local
fisheries. Being used to fishery feeding they are easily caught and rarely
grow beyond a pound in the river.
The Brown Trout is a native of European waters and were introduced to Himalayan
streams first in Kashmir in the 1860’s and later from there to the
Beas in the 1920’s.The legend that they followed everywhere the British
army and empire went, its officers insisting on fishing it for sport can’t
be far off the mark as they are found almost everywhere, from North to South
America to Japan to Korea to New Zealand to the Himalayas.
A typical brown trout has a brown or yellow-brown body, with black spots
on the back, sides, dorsal fin and tail, especially the upper portion. There
are also some red or bright orange spots scattered down the sides of most
brown trout, sometimes with light blue halos. The tail is square-ended on
most mature fish. And don't stick you fingers or thumb in the mouth of a
brown trout. They've got teeth down there and could very well take the digit
off.
Brown
trout are closely related to the Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar), and share
many of the same river systems in Northern Europe. Like the salmon, brown
trout sometimes swim out to sea and return to the rivers as sea trout. Sea
trout can be found in many European waters, but the most famous place in
the world to catch large sea- run brown trout is undoubtably Tierra del
Fuego's Rio Grande River (Argentina), where fish weighing 10-25 pounds are
common.
Brown Trout, India Angling Reservation Form
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