Joe, sounds like an interesting observation... I guess we'll never know what they were. Rosey red FHM have a similar coloration as palominos do. Maybe someone was using them for bait and released a few into the creek? I have caught a hand full of rosey reds in the wild and wondered how the heck they got there... There are a very few trout streams with naturally reproducing rainbows in them in PA and of those, I am not sure any have shown to have palominos in them. Anything is possible though.
