Not a brown, just a rainbow with a few parr markings retained yet. Some will wash out and turn chrome, some will carry that coloration all the way through. some would say it's a sub-species within a sub-species, not sure I buy into that, though. Neither that, nor do I like to hear it referred to as a color phase because that fish would likely retain similar coloration throughout its life.
Nice run, Harold and Slim.
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