Plan B Unicorn - 1/12/19

Bob thanks for taking the time asking around and sharing responses. Great read. Seems like the best way to determine as one person pointed out and is part of the link I posted earlier is the inside roof of the mouth. LL has a single row what they call vomerine on the roof of their mouth, brown trout has two in a more zig zag pattern. Too late for that comparison unfortunately. Again I hope to attend the F&G meeting this Saturday, will see if any biologists are available and I'll post their opinions.

[bulletbob]

Originally Posted by dakota560

Bob thanks for taking the time asking around and sharing responses. Great read. Seems like the best way to determine as one person pointed out and is part of the link I posted earlier is the inside roof of the mouth. LL has a single row what they call vomerine on the roof of their mouth, brown trout has two in a more zig zag pattern. Too late for that comparison unfortunately. Again I hope to attend the F&G meeting this Saturday, will see if any biologists are available and I'll post their opinions.

Tom.. If you look at the comparison photo of the 3 browns/3 salmon, that the guy on LOU posted, you will see the TYPICAL look of browns/salmon.. Deeper tail fork, less spotting on the LL that does not go as far down toward the stomach/ventral area, mostly all black specs instead of the colored round spots on the brown, and in general the LL are more "silvery" than the browns.. Thats why I put the word "typical" in caps.

However, there is always the genetic oddball here or there, and on LOU we see this type of thread regularly.. The answer is ALWAYS the same.. Check inside the mouth, its the most conclusive way to identify... Of course, no one ever does! bob

[Dave B.]

Take a look at this LL pic that was taken of one of those same fish while they were at the Hackettestown Hatchery. Looks damn near identical to me.
https://www.njfishandwildlife.com/im...ry_ruberto.jpg
I'm sticking with LL Salmon.

[JDTuna]

Congratulations dude! That is, without a doubt, 100 percent a landlocked salmon. No question about it. You're probably the first to catch one there as well. That's a huge achievement if you ask me.

[15FOOTER]

Nice job! That was prob a tough fish to catch. Theyll kill em all by late spring now dont worry. Look at how much more pressure another lake got that had an 8lb LL reported. They will just go the way of the brown trout in other reservoirs. Thought they would be bigger in Wawayanda by now lmao

[Chrisper4694]

njf&w confirmed with the source of the stocked ll salmon that it is 100% a ll salmon. pretty cool.

[NJSquatch]

F&W biologist (Pat H) also asked to report any additional LL catches (length, weight, pics,etc) from the reservoir. They are concerned about stressing the forage population and didn't want to stock too many.

https://www.nj.gov/dep/fgw/bfwf_biologists.htm