Anybody else fish for planted triploid trout?

[taxid]

If so do you find eggs in them? Always thought they are supposed to be sterile and hence no eggs. Or is it they have eggs but they are not viable?

[taxid]

Well found out they do not have eggs.

[lowaccord66]

Ive never heard of them.  Seems like I may not be the only one!

[filetandrelease]

Ok going to ask a question are we talking sea fellon (spelling) which are also barren

[Raquettedacker]

http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=fishinggeneconservationlab.triploid_trout 

[zwiggles]

He is talking about triploids like the world record rainbow the Konrad twins caught a few years back. My understanding is they only put energy into growth, and none into spawning.

CA and AK have some state run programs for stocking triploid bows since they can't reproduce, and therefore cannot augment other species by interbreeding with them.

[filetandrelease]

Thanks , Dom they stocked sterile browns in Lake Ontario many years ago

[Raquettedacker]

http://www.espn.com/outdoors/fishing/news/story?id=4466614 

[filetandrelease]

Article I just read said those fish escaped from a fish farm , those are true monsters

[taxid]

The reason I asked the question was fishhogger is catching rainbows on Oliver Lake in Lagrange County Indiana with eggs in them. I was told the fish planted were triploids, so was somewhat puzzled they had eggs. A biologist I conferred with thought they were triploids too. Long story short all the rainbows planted in Oliver over the last decade or more -- since the state purchases eggs from an egg supplier i Washington state called Trout Lodge --have been diploids (normal amount of chromosomes.) So eggs with the females is a given.

So that solves the mystery.