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Fur-Bearing Trout
Fur-Bearing Trout (also known as Beaver Trout) possess thick coats of fur that help to keep them warm in the cold northern waters where they live.According to legend, the fur-bearing trout was first encountered by Europeans when Scottish settlers emigrated to Canada during the seventeenth century. One settler wrote home remarking about the abundance of "furried animals and fish" in the new land. Asked to provide more information about the furried fish, he duly sent home a specimen. Fur-Bearing trouts mounted as trophies can be found hanging on walls throughout the Great Lakes region of North America.
Other fur-bearing aquatic animals besides trout are sometimes encountered. For instance, fur-bearing crab (below - left) are occasionally sold on eBay. However, it should be noted that a fur-bearing lobster (below - right) found recently deep in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Easter Island is not considered to be a tall-tale creature. It is a subject of mainstream scientific inquiry (seriously!).
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fur bearing trouts rock man
Posted by Anonymous on Sat Jul 21, 2001 at 12:59 PM
Nice site. My Dad sent it to me because I told him of the story I had read in college about fur bearing trout. He then sent me the picture of it from your site. Thanks.
My father stood the colorado fishing community on it's ears in 1950, by driving into Denver with a 47# "rainbow trout" strapped to a car's ski rack, making the first page of the Denver Post, Empire Magizine, and national wire of the Associated Press.
Posted by Anonymous on Tue Dec 31, 2002 at 07:47 PM
I once read that in addition to the hoax fish, there's an actual fur-bearing trout native to Michigan. It's not actually fur-bearing, of course, any more than the hairy frog is actually hairy, but the shape, texture and positioning of its scales is such that it appears to have a coat of short fur.
Posted by Michael Telford in Vancouver, BC, Canada on Fri May 21, 2004 at 12:32 PM
I own a trout from The Slave Lake. it was a neat $45 dollars.
Posted by cameron in ohio on Mon May 31, 2004 at 06:12 PM
what is under the fur is it scales of skin or ??What
Posted by jeff in ontario canada on Wed Aug 18, 2004 at 09:19 PM
The fur-bearing trout story has come across the Rockies. My dad like to tell this story.
Posted by TC on Fri Aug 19, 2005 at 11:12 AM
Fur-bearing Trout Haiku
Skinned fur-bearing trout
Makes a nice waterproof coat
Smells real fishy though
Posted by Terran in Winter Park, FL on Thu Nov 16, 2006 at 09:49 AM
Skinned fur-bearing trout
Makes a nice waterproof coat
Smells real fishy though
Beneath the waters
A chemical accident?
A furry fish!
Posted by J on Mon Nov 20, 2006 at 01:27 PM
A chemical accident?
A furry fish!
coat of warm fur
warms the fish in cold channels;
smell not Chanel 5
Posted by #1F in NNVA on Wed Nov 22, 2006 at 07:02 PM
warms the fish in cold channels;
smell not Chanel 5
In deep river,
Mistake of evolution,
is hunted for fur
Posted by Exactor on Wed Mar 21, 2007 at 12:48 AM
Mistake of evolution,
is hunted for fur
The majority of amphibians have an aquatic larval stage, like a tadpole, but then live as terrestrial adults, and may return to the water to mate.
Posted by paste2008 in around on Mon Feb 25, 2008 at 10:26 AM
Some say that the creature evolved its thick coat to protect itself from the extreme cold of northern waters.
Posted by colorado river rafting in L.A. on Tue Mar 11, 2008 at 01:16 AM
I saw a bunch of fur-bearing trout in the Rockies, but it might have been the result of too many Coors Lights . . .
Aaron Snow
Colorado Skiing
Posted by Aaron in Colorado on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 06:48 PM
Aaron Snow
Colorado Skiing
I can't stop laughing !Haaaa!
Posted by Jangler on Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 06:25 PM
the fur bearing trout is a known fake. ripleys believe it or not in orlando has one mounted exactly the same as as the one pictured and an explanation of how they came about. ripleys also has a murmonkey. which is a monkey's top half sowed onto a fishes tail. heres my pic of the fur bearing trout from ripleys
Look here for other pics of fakes at ripleys
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/7274/p9010058tt2.jpg
(this one shows the description of how the fur bearing trout came about but the pic is too blurry for me to read and i can't remember what it said)
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/8062/p9010057ro1.jpg
http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/1331/sdc10145ie7.jpg
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/6788/sdc10146ia3.jpg
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/3026/sdc10148ad3.jpg
Posted by shell in London, England on Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 10:33 AM
Look here for other pics of fakes at ripleys
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/7274/p9010058tt2.jpg
(this one shows the description of how the fur bearing trout came about but the pic is too blurry for me to read and i can't remember what it said)
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/8062/p9010057ro1.jpg
http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/1331/sdc10145ie7.jpg
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/6788/sdc10146ia3.jpg
http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/3026/sdc10148ad3.jpg
Yeah it's a fake. I saw this in Ripley's believe it or not, too. I think this is just a hoax.
Frank from Super Handybundle
Posted by Frank on Thu Jan 29, 2009 at 06:17 AM
Frank from Super Handybundle
The furry lobster is called a "Yeti Lobster." It actually is real, but extremely rare, I believe.
Posted by liddle bum on Sat Mar 14, 2009 at 11:41 PM
this website is wkd , i like the fur bearing trout there cool
Posted by macauley mcbride in corby england on Tue Sep 22, 2009 at 06:30 AM
At the age of 28, the fur bearing trout is still the best legend I have ever heard.
Posted by Al in Canada on Thu Feb 17, 2011 at 07:15 PM
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