Anglers are requested to fill out cards listing the date and location of the catch, the fish's length, and whether the
adipose fin is clipped.
Diagnostic features: large, prominent
adipose fin, short rayed dorsal fin and very long barbels.
With circle hooks it was the opposite--more hookups when hooked near the
adipose fin (rear of the dorsal fin).
Body measures were significant correlated with total length (TL), except for base
adipose fin (AF), mouth depth (MD) and eye depth (ED) of immature females (Table 2).
The 18-pounder, which took a trolled silver Toby, was missing its
adipose fin, which indicated it had been bred and stocked by the Loch Lomond Angling Improvement Association, who do sterling work on the loch and its rivers.
Adipose fin long, anterior margin rising gently and then almost straight for the entire length.
virolinica and by the presence of pigment on the
adipose fin (vs.
3A), but depressed fin pale yellow with oblique rows of dark pigment;
adipose fin pale with at least one dark marking dorsally; pectoral fin pale with approximately 6 wavy, irregular bars of dark brown pigment; pelvic fins bright yellow; anal fin yellow; center of caudal fin (at anterior end of fork) and posterior portion of ventral caudal lobe dark gray to brown; dorsal caudal lobe pale with light, dusky pigment on posterior margin; dorsal caudal lobe with 2-3 small brown bars on procurrent rays.
Can't keep wild ones, so everybody's hoping to see that
adipose fin clipped off."
The fish have been clipped on the
adipose fin between the tail and dorsal fin to enable anglers to identify their catch as a stocked fish.
The morphologic identification of the adults of these fish species relies on the dorsal fin and
adipose fin length; nevertheless, similarities of specific traits during development make their identification unsuccessful.
A salmon's
adipose fin, the very small one just forward of the tail and on its back, has no red as one might expect on a brown.