What The Heck Is This?

[nashua fisherman]

hit behind margarita's d**n for a few hopping to catch some smallies and caught this thing. what is it?

[i said ALL day]

Looks like maybe a brown trout, hard t tell from a pic

[Boots]

some sort of trout my guess would be a brown or a rainbow

[NateFollmer]

That's a rainbow...

[Shane J]

Although I value Nate's expert opinion very highly, I actually think that is a salmon. I caught one that looked very similar to that, and was told it was in fact a salmon.

[NateFollmer]

Ah never even thought about salmon.... they do look similar when they are young. Good call Shane! Not about the fish, about valuing my opinion

[GTrombly]

I think it's a salmon too, just looked at other pictures.

[NHBassMaster2]

I third, Salmon. Good catch! Didn't know those were even back there. Nice work!

[GTrombly]

I would like to conduct a taste test.

[nashua fisherman]

thanks guys.

[Nixstyx]

That definitely looks like a salmon. NH Fish and Game does stock salmon parr and smolt in some of the tributaries of the Merrimack River watershed (as part of the salmon restoration program), but not in the Nashua River. That guy must have got lost. Hopefully you released him, because they're illegal to keep at that size.

Here's a link to a NH F&G page about how to tell the difference between a salmon and trout.

http://www.eregulati...nd-brown-trout/

[lou304]

Salmon!

[central.PA.bass]

Looks like a salmon!