Unidentified fish in Lake Minnewanka?

Fisherjohn · #1 10-07-2018, 05:31 AM

I went fishing for lake trout in Minnewanka over the summer, and I caught a trout that looks completely different than the others. It was on a medium sized Williams wabler weighed down by a three way swivel. Is it possibly just a deformed rainbow or laker or something? http://http://s349.photobucket.com/user/Ethank984/media/036B005A-7879-40C8-849F-8F3E447EEB67_zps6ej9qvs1.png.html?sort=3&o=1 http://s349.photobucket.com/user/Eth...tml?sort=3&o=2

oizo · #2 10-07-2018, 06:37 AM

Looks like a Kokanee

Talking moose · #3 10-07-2018, 06:41 AM

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Originally Posted by oizo

Looks like a Kokanee

It does.

Marty S · #4 10-07-2018, 07:05 AM

Yup, was his meat blood red?

Fisherjohn · #5 10-07-2018, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Marty S

Yup, was his meat blood red?

I didn’t see it’s flesh. I didn’t keep it because I wasn’t quite sure what it was.

I didn’t realize that Kokanee lived in Minnewanka, I thought that Alberta didn’t have salmon.

dodgeboy1979 · #6 10-07-2018, 09:07 AM

Some lakes were stocked with Kokanee in the 70's and 80's i believe in Alberta.

JareS · #7 10-07-2018, 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by oizo

Looks like a Kokanee

X2

What a cool catch!

QBC · #8 10-07-2018, 08:51 AM

That is indeed a Kokanee, I've caught many of those in BC. Damn good eating fish BTW.

Unregistered user · #9 10-07-2018, 08:49 AM

Good gag.

Keelere984 · #10 10-09-2018, 09:14 PM

First off, this is obviously fake, and I wish these idiotic trollers would screw off, but wouldnt it be cool if it wasn’t? Also, was anyone fishing there around the time that they actually did release a bunch of different species into the lake and catch anything? Imagine pulling in a huge Atlantic salmon without even knowning they were in there!