Talk:Fur-bearing trout

Reported in Wisconsin
This fish was recently caught in Wisconsin. Just some more picture proof of it's existence. It's likely the fungus mentioned in on this Wikipedia page, but still, it's a furry fish no matter how you slice it.

To that extent, can we really justify calling this thing a fictional creature? I mean, it does exist. It's not fictional.


 * What complete and utter rubbish. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:34, 18 May 2015 (UTC) p.s. are you too embarrassed to sign?

Leadville Tale
I came across a tale in a history book on Leadville, Colorado that contained a story about the Fur-bearing trout. In it, the hapless inventor of a hair-tonic was taking bottles of his tonic into town, when he slipped on rain-slick planks that were bridging California Gulch. I believe the story ends with the I'll try to find the story if I can... --Mdwyer (talk) 22:58, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

I once read that there's a species of trout found in Michigan which has scales of length, shape, and positioning such that the fish can appear to be "fur bearing." Of course, its fur is no more fur than the hairy frog's "hair" is actual hair. Can anyone confirm or deny this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.157.132.184 (talk) 02:42, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Gunsmoke
I'd never heard this expression until today, when a character in the Gunsmoke episode "A Town in Chains" dissed another character by calling him a "fur-bearin' trout". The episode was written by Ron Bishop, who had an encyclopedic knowledge of Western slang and jargon. This episode is worth seeing, simply because it gives the impression we're hearing true 19th-century speech. WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 00:25, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

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'Purportedly' query
This is the first line of the article:

The fur-bearing trout (or furry trout) is a legendary creature purportedly found in American folklore and Icelandic folklore

Why is this 'purported'? Surely it is definitely found in American and Icelandic folklore? Or is there some debate about what we mean by folklore?

If no one has an answer about this adverb I'll change :) Mr Blumenthal (talk) 10:02, 5 August 2023 (UTC)