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Wbranch	November 12th, 2014, 7:57 am
York & Starlight PA Posts: 2611	I have a new Facebook friend and he sent me this picture. It looks like a cross between a Rocky Mountain whitefish and a brown trout. It is not photoshopped. http://www.balkan-trout.com/slike/studied_neretva_1.jpg
	Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years.
Millcreek	November 12th, 2014, 11:41 am
Healdsburg, CA Posts: 342	Matt, Pretty cool fish. The photo got me curious so I googled Neretva trout. Apparently quite a bit of flyfishing for it in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Found some more pictures from the University of Toronto http://individual.utoronto.ca/manuesteve/UTsoftmouth.html as well as some spawning footage on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7MPHM7hzCs. Also found a paper on the Neretva River and it's fish here http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i1373e/i1373e03.pdf. Interesting trout and river, thanks for posting it. Mark
	"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" -Albert Einstein
RMlytle	November 12th, 2014, 5:59 pm
Connecticut Posts: 40	Wow! Just added that to my fish wish list.
Jmd123	November 12th, 2014, 8:11 pm
Oscoda, MI Posts: 2441	Guys, check out James Prosek's Trout of the World. He covers just about every species and subspecies of salmonids worldwide, and I remember he's got a pretty good discussion of Balkan species in there, which are quite diverse. Jonathon
	No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere...
Millcreek	November 12th, 2014, 10:03 pm
Healdsburg, CA Posts: 342	Jonathan, Guys, check out James Prosek's Trout of the World. Another good book is Robert Behnke's "Trout and Salmon of North America" illustrated by Joseph Tomelleri. While it only covers North America I don't think Behnke missed much. Good descriptions as well as the biology and ecology of trout.
	"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" -Albert Einstein
Jmd123	November 12th, 2014, 11:37 pm
Oscoda, MI Posts: 2441	Mark, I am familiar with that one too. Joseph Tomelleri is also an amazing fish artist (I have his Fishes of the Central United States, tour de force on the sunfish!), and the contrast in the two styles is interesting - Prosek uses watercolors while Tomelleri uses colored pencils, yet both create drawings/paintings of fishes that I have actually seen and caught on numerous occasions. So, I can guess that the species I don't know are represented accurately! Prosek has also done his homework and corresponded with Behnke and other salmonid experts...though not to the degree that Behnke and his colleagues have! But he does back up his "coffee-table trout books" with some interesting knowledge. Jonathon
	No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere...
PaulRoberts	November 12th, 2014, 11:58 pm
Colorado Posts: 1776	Brown trout evolved in eastern Eurasia, so there's diversity there. Our stocks of browns are derived from just two varieties. Likely the "odd" mouth of obtusirostris (and lenok) are convergent with whitefish (adaptations to environmental circumstances and not directly related). Here's the trunk page from a site Mark provided, showing salmonid diversity: http://individual.utoronto.ca/manuesteve/UTphylogeny.html Click on S. akairos! Pretty cool. (I almost ended up in Morocco, instead of the Philippines.)

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