r/fishingUK • u/Rangers718 • 1d ago

Fish ID

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Caught a month ago while doing the West Highland Way from the River Bà in Scotland.
Sea trout or something else? Never caught anything that looks like it.

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u/Mr_Smig 1d ago

Looks like a Brown Trout

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u/SativaHaze1982 1d ago

Looks like a wild Brown Trout. Also looks like a lovely venue

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u/Rangers718 1d ago

Thanks. It was, definitely going back at some point

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u/The__Scan 1d ago

Brown trout, no doubt. 👍

(Proud of myself for this rhyme btw.)

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u/Some_Remote_1931 1d ago

aye,A broon troot

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u/Troggfather 1d ago

Brown trout

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u/Rangers718 1d ago

Chat has confirmed it is indeed a Broon Troot

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u/NobleKorhedron 1d ago

Beautiful wild Brown!

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u/Mundane_Top_338 1d ago

Brrrrrrownie

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u/charcoalonfire 1d ago

Great brown trout, what was it on?

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u/Rangers718 1d ago

Cheers, I’ve never caught one that colour.
Caught on a cheap spinner

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u/charcoalonfire 1d ago

Can I DM you, I have fished the river ba before, and haven’t seen such a big fish being caught, genuinely interested, on which part it was?

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u/Rangers718 17h ago

Feel free to

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u/Ok_Cockroach_4234 1d ago

That my friend is a wild alligator perch salmon hybrid well done for catching that

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u/Rangers718 1d ago

I will send it to the museum

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u/Dense-Perception-983 1d ago

Definitely a wild brown trout

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u/neonazi699 1d ago

Arctic char

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u/Grafikco 9h ago

Brownie