I have sort of a "tangent" story on tiger trout, from one of my friends in Utah. They were doing some of the "conservation restorations" that are so common in the Rockies today. They were poisoning streams above barriers to get rid of non-native brook, brown, and rainbow trout, and then restocking with the native subspecies of cutthroat trout. To keep anglers happy and to ease the public relations process, they stocked triploid tiger trout of catchable size back into the renovated streams. That way, there was an immediate fishery available while the cutthroats had time to develop. The combination of triploidy and the far distance between the two parents (brook and brown are in different scientific genera, for those of you who might care about such things
) resulted in no reproduction. Anyway, here's the final point of this long story. Once the anglers got to fish for tigers, they wanted more, more, more! They really liked them, probably for the reasons that Bob stated above.
