NatureCompass: WVPD: Natural History: Fish:

Cold Water Species

Landlocked Salmon

• Color: silvery sides, silver-white belly, and brown, green or blue back
  
  
• Bronze-brown at spawning time
  
  
• Scales are conspicuous
  
  
• End of upper jaw lines up with center of eye
  
  
• X-shaped, irregular black spots concentrated on upper half of body - no spots on the tail (sharp cornered tail)
  
  
• No spots on adipose fin
  
  
• Length: 12-20"

Trout

Rainbow

• Color: top varies from steel-blue to yellow-green to brown. Flanks are lighter with a pink stripe (more pronounced in spawning males)
  
  
• Scales are conspicuous
  
  
• Body heavily spotted with small block dots, and tail has radiating rows of dots
  
  
• Adipose fin is olive with black margin

Brown

• Same body shape as rainbow except a squared tail
  
  
• Color: light brown overall, the flanks are lighter, spots are red- dish intermixed with black spots, and each spot has a halo
  
  
• Mouth extends way past the eye
  
  
• No markings on the lower fins, few or no tail spots
  
  
• Adipose fin may have orange spots or an orange margin
  
  
• Length: 8-18"

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