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Its some kind of cutthroat? Any ideas?

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I'm going to say it's full-on cutt, just a juvenile. Still has the parr marks.
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Thanks. I'm pretty new to Cutthroat, so does anyone know what type it is? [:/]
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Large-spotted Yellowstone I'd say.
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definantly a cutthroat but it would help us narrow it down if you could say what body of water it was caught on. you dont have to say where but it would help.
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Packdle Lake above Driggs
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Yellowstone cutt.
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[quote flygoddess]Yellowstone cutt.[/quote]

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My cousin went to packdle on Sat, now I think maybe I should have gone with him. Nice little fish there. I went to Green Canyon instead, still some nice things to look at though.
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I know, I know. Thats the big Dog! Good catch.

Idaho
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Well that sure looks like a Seldovia Trout to me. Inside joke there for Teenfisherman.
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TeenFishermanID,

I agree with the others, it is a cutthroat trout. A little biology and geography here makes it all but a sure thing that it is a Yellowstone cutthroat. There are several sub-species of cutthroat throughout the western United States. The region you were fishing in is the native habitat of the Yellowstone Cutthroat which is found in the Snake, Salt, Blackfoot and Yellowstone Rivers and other associated tributaries that flow into the Columbia River and then to the Pacific Ocean.

Further south and flowing into the Bear River and Great Basin area of Utah we have the Bonneville cutthroat sub-species. The Bear Lake cutthroat is a separate native strain of the Bonneville cutt adapted to the deep Bear Lake.

Further north of where you were fishing and into Montana and central and northern Idaho, we have the westslope sub-species of cutthroat.

There are several other distinct sub-species of cutts throughout the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Slope. Other examples are the Rio Grande, Lahontan, Fine spotted Snake River, Colorado greenback and a few others. All are especially adapted to their specific native habitat.

A general fact is that westlope cutthroat do well north of the Salmon River and Yellowstone cutthroat fare better south of the Salmon River. That is why your fellow BFT members were able to assuredly tell you that your trout was a Yellowstone cutthroat and not a Westslope cutt because of the specific place you were fishing.

DeeCee
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Strawberry has Bear Lake Cutts.
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