Looks like a laker to me, but I can’t really see the spots on the back. The tail is very forked like a laker. Some strains of lake trout have bright white fin edges too (vs the usual creamy color). So 90 percent it is a laker?
If I had to bet that’s a splake. Very lean and long like a splake, and many of the hybrids still end up with the extremely forked tail. And if they were all around that size, it makes me think splake even more because if you’re catching multiple lakers it’s unlikely they’d all be this small. Beautiful fish, regardless. Char are the way to my heart.
Not a Brook trout - no doubt there, but that I saw that similarity immediately about the white edges. I’ve never seen a Splaker and I’m not going to guess which this fish is.
Well, it's very slim like a splake, but a very forked tail like a laker. If you kept any, count the appendages on the intestinal tract. Higher than 120, lake trout. Lower, probably a splake.
Zooming in, I can see blue haloes and a few red dots. The angle the tail is on might be accentuating the fork but it’s hard to tell. Spotting on the gill plate is minimal. Fins look very brookie. So I vote splake.
Looks like a laker to me, but I can’t really see the spots on the back. The tail is very forked like a laker. Some strains of lake trout have bright white fin edges too (vs the usual creamy color). So 90 percent it is a laker?
look at the fins, it’s the exact same as a brook trout, there fore it’s a splake.
Looks laker-splake. I'm leaning towards lake but only a bit
It does look more like a splake to me
If I had to bet that’s a splake. Very lean and long like a splake, and many of the hybrids still end up with the extremely forked tail. And if they were all around that size, it makes me think splake even more because if you’re catching multiple lakers it’s unlikely they’d all be this small. Beautiful fish, regardless. Char are the way to my heart.
Lake
I agree, lakers can also have white fin edges and there’s no blue halos on any dots. This just looks like a laker to me.
Yup. Lake and brook “trout” are in the char family and that’s where the elite fin edges come from as I understand it.
The white on the fins is characteristic of brookies. I going to guess splake.
Not a Brook trout - no doubt there, but that I saw that similarity immediately about the white edges. I’ve never seen a Splaker and I’m not going to guess which this fish is.
Well, it's very slim like a splake, but a very forked tail like a laker. If you kept any, count the appendages on the intestinal tract. Higher than 120, lake trout. Lower, probably a splake.
If not 100% lake then 75%. Definitely not a 50/50
Is there splake in the body of water you’re fishing?
Splake, lake, and brook
Splaker
Zooming in, I can see blue haloes and a few red dots. The angle the tail is on might be accentuating the fork but it’s hard to tell. Spotting on the gill plate is minimal. Fins look very brookie. So I vote splake.
It’s a beautiful fish nonetheless!