Croton Falls Brown, 01-07-12

[phriday613]

Nice job guys! Quality browns!

[kwagner0905]

Great fish any time of year but for January, in NY, in a boat....Priceless!

[pbd]

Great catch  but also wondering if it is the seaforellen type as they did stock them in CF years ago

[Montrose]

Both great fish guys.  Congrats!

I put together my own spoons for shoreline casting and use only single siwash hooks for the same reasons noted.  I have also read the trebles can actually deflect a strike at times due to the 3 bends blocking the fish from biting down on a hook point.  Not sure if it's true, but when you hook up on the siwash it's almost always through thye top or bottom jaw and around bone ensuring a solid hook set.

[ChrisD]

Great catch  but also wondering if it is the seaforellen type as they did stock them in CF years ago

To be honest I would not know a Seaforellen trout if you smacked me in the head with it. The only place I ever heard of them being stocked around here is the Rondout Reservoir. Here is another picture of it without the sun reflecting of it.

[lionpshark]

Chris that is a monster

[Gordon]

Here is a picture of a seeforellen brown I caught in the spring at Saugatuck Reservoir in CT. I believe they only stock this strain of brown there. Fewer spots, not sure if there is a more definitive way to tell them apart.

[lionpshark]

Here is a picture of a seeforellen brown I caught in the spring at Saugatuck Reservoir in CT. I believe they only stock this strain of brown there. Fewer spots, not sure if there is a more definitive way to tell them apart.

What is a seeforellen brown?

[Ant73]

Seeforellen brown trout are a strain of brown trout that live a lot longer and get a lot bigger than the usuall variety Brown Trout that gets stocked in our reservoirs.  I believe the only east of Hudson reservoir that has seeforellen stock is cross river res.  I have caught them in Lake Ontario, generally the record breakers are the seeforellen strain. The only way to identify the seeforellen is by a clipped Adipose fin.   There are so many diffrent spot patterns its hard to say what type brown it is.

[bluefish]

The  picture that Gordon has posted looks a lot more like the daytime shot of Chris' fish (the first one posted), and that's why I initially thought it looked like a seeforellen.

The second picture of Chris' fish looks more "spotty" (maybe from the camera angle?)

I guess it was just wishful thinking on my part that they'd be stocking seeforellen in the reservoirs

[biggamee]

Here is a picture of a seeforellen brown I caught in the spring at Saugatuck Reservoir in CT. I believe they only stock this strain of brown there. Fewer spots, not sure if there is a more definitive way to tell them apart.

What is a seeforellen brown?

Manny remember that pic of the Brown that probably eats small kids...thats a Seeforellen..

[lionpshark]

Here is a picture of a seeforellen brown I caught in the spring at Saugatuck Reservoir in CT. I believe they only stock this strain of brown there. Fewer spots, not sure if there is a more definitive way to tell them apart.

What is a seeforellen brown?

Manny remember that pic of the Brown that probably eats small kids...thats a Seeforellen..

So the Pic that Montrose posted with that Trout the size of a cadillac was a seeforellen. Nice

[biggamee]

Here is a picture of a seeforellen brown I caught in the spring at Saugatuck Reservoir in CT. I believe they only stock this strain of brown there. Fewer spots, not sure if there is a more definitive way to tell them apart.

What is a seeforellen brown?

Manny remember that pic of the Brown that probably eats small kids...thats a Seeforellen..

So the Pic that Montrose posted with that Trout the size of a cadillac was a seeforellen. Nice

YES THE CADILLAC EDITION BROWN TROUT LMAO!!!!!!!!!

[jager61]

Holy Crap Chris, that's a SLAMMER brown Bro! I've been off the WF grid for a while and missed out on this story! You didn't mention this one when we were up on Indian a few weeks ago. Fantastic fish!

By the way, in case anyone is interested, "Seeforellen" literally translated means Lake Trout in German! The word "See" means Lake and "Forellen" is trout!

Mike

[westputrout]

 but they  are a strain of brown trout which were stocked in the 80s & 90s in a few select resivoures   CR  GLENIDA