How do you identify Alpers?

[Ultralight]

Curious how you know a trout is Aplers?

Thanks,
UL

[Troutman65]

When the Aplers stock truck rolls up .

[Nipple Twister]

.......get a simple answer:

Troutman65

When the Aplers stock truck rolls up .

sorry, but it was funny.....

[tunafisherman]

The ones I have caught in the have a metal tag on the gill plate.

[seal]

The ones I have caught in the have a metal tag on the gill plate.

Don't know about that, normally that means you have caught a DFG broodstock but they have in the past a stocking program out of the casino in Bishop that tagged trout but they were not metal tags.

Alpers usually have a more rosy or orange gill plate on them and generally are just better looking fish than DFG normal stocks but if you get into a holdover or a broodstock it can get more challenging to tell the difference.

[fish'n fool]

Generally, the Alpers look "better". The tails are full and they look well fed. The only way you'll really know is when you clean them. The meat is orange, almost like salmon. The flesh inside has an oily feel. When you cook them, you'll enjoy them more than the DFG stock. I only keep what I think are the Alpers. Everybody else gets released.

[DEVOREFLYER]

Alper’s trout are genetically different. Native trout and all F & G planted trout are Diploid trout while Alper’s are Triploid trout. They are genetically modified by a pressure or temperature shock at the earliest embryo stage. Alper’s trout are unable to reproduce and the genetic modification allows a faster growth rate. If you take an Alper’s and hold it beside a native of the same weight it will be more full bodied or football shaped. This difference gets more apparent as the trout get larger. The F & G in its infinite wisdom and being pushed by the Eco freaks is planning to halt all stocking of Diploid trout in California bodies of water that have native fish and allow only Triploid trout to be stocked in the future. I wonder what that will do when all of the Diploid trout are taken from a body of water like Lake Crowley and only sterile Triploid are left. There will be no fish going up the Owens River to spawn and I suspect the fishery will suffer over time. You have just got to love the F & G people in this state. I just don’t get the thinking they have with the limited funds they have. Keep the Alper's and eat them, catch and release the rest.

[TroutOnly]

THE FIRST TWO FISH ARE ALPERS CAUGHT AT THE PVR AND SOUTH LAKE THE TWO AFTER THAT ARE DFG BROODERS CAUGHT ON THE LOWER OWENS RIVER,,,,,,,,,,,

[Big Country]

Hey T/O...love the snot bubble hanging from your kid's nose. Thought people weren't supposed to fish between upper and lower twins lakes out of b-port (hahaha) Just messing with you.

[Big Country]

top is an alpers and bottom is dfg broadstock...my thought is that mosts alpers I've see are just more colorful (with the exception of fish caught from Grant)