Fishing Forum

Well Ill come right out and say I can count the number of times I have fished the teton on one hand. It isn't a river that I know but its in our back yard here in rexburg so I figured it was time to start learning it. Went in on the dam ramp and parked as far up the side as I could, after walking all the way up past the pools I looked up and saw the road that comes down with the pump. FAIL haha. Its been 5 years since I went down in there and had forgotten about it. So I started throwing a few different hoppers. Got a few looks, failed to set the hook on a couple of nice looking fish. Fished up about a half a mile from there and hooked one nice 15 inch cutty on the hopper. Fish look nice and fat right now, seem to have come through the high water well. Ended up landing 5 more fish mostly in the 8-10 inch range. And lost one fish that felt fairly good. All I had was tan and yellow bodied hoppers but it didn't seem to be the money colors. What a gorgeous night to be on the river.
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Were the cutthroat covered in rough, black spots? I haven't fished the Teton yet this year, but last year the fish I caught had something weird going on. Any thoughts there?
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[quote Rexburg_rabble]Were the cutthroat covered in rough, black spots? I haven't fished the Teton yet this year, but last year the fish I caught had something weird going on. Any thoughts there?[/quote]

A few of them did actually. Struck me as weird. Was one of the first times I had ever seen that in cuttys. Was going to ask the same question and forgot to do it when I posted last night.
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Those spots are normal for that section of river most of the cutts from there on up have them.

Windriver
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It's a parasite, it's been talked about a fair amount on the site.


http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gfo...20;#638620
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Hey thanks for the link Chris, good to know. I rarely keep fish out of rivers anyhow. But after reading those threads it seems one would be fine, just need to make sure its cooked well.
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Just be sure not to keep any cutthroats as you are not allowed to on the Teton.
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Thanks, Chris for this info on the parasite. Very informative!

My brother was in town and wanted to see what fly fishing was all about. My wife and I took him to the Teton and it was a lot of fun. The weather was beautiful and the spot we were at was equal to that! The first half hour or so my brother had a fish hit his hopper. It caught him so off guard he didn't know what to do! He yanked back on his line, lost his footing and fell on his butt on the rocks! Classic! A little while later he was stoked to have hooked a fish. It was a beautiful 16 inch cutthroat---without the black spot parasite!! I took some nice pics of it, but I'm having trouble posting them. I followed the directions on the post, but it never saves when I "submit" them. Any insights??
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sounds like you showed him a good time! No clue on the picture deal, I use photo bucket so they show up in the posts like this....

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How does photo bucket work? I'd be fine inserting the pictures directly into the post instead of having links.
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You can attach an image in the forum and click the inline button on the right of the "upload attachment" button. Then just click the picture frame up front and select the inline button. Attachments will show up there and resize to the width of the posting area when you insert them.
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[quote Rexburg_rabble]How does photo bucket work? I'd be fine inserting the pictures directly into the post instead of having links.[/quote]

its a free hosting site, makes it so if you have a few places you share photos its simpler. and if you want access from anywhere to your pics if you have internet you have them regardless of what computer your on.

After you upload pics there it will attach 4 lines of code to them with a label to the left as to what code does what. You have a direct link address ( think web address to the photo), a couple others and then an image link. If you copy and paste the image link into your post it shows up like in the post like mine does above. Makes it faster to view pics in a thread since you don't have to click on each attachment and wait for it to load, hit the back button, wait for the forum to load ect.
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Here's a pic from the other day.I'm afraid it's too big and is going to take forever to load. Sorry...
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Nice Fish!!!!! I miss my old friend Yellowstone cutthroat!!!!!
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You can thank blackspot disease for the abundant fish because not many folks want to eat such scuzzy looking trout. I've fished the Teton for 14 years and I think, in general, the fish that winter over in silty bottomed pools and eat infected snails develop moderate to severe blackspot. The older they get, the more snails they have eaten and the worse the disease. I've seen many 17-20 inchers that have around 85-90% of the body covered and believe it accounts for why there are not many 21+ inchers in the river. There should be more since so few are harvested and the river is so incredibly fertile. The muscle damage makes a badly infected fish fight like a worn out dishrag compared to a healthy trout; pound for pound, the lamest fighting fish I know of. Every year I swing in some spotty 18"-20" cutts, on a 4wt, barbless and in under 45 seconds. It's all about the take, the fight is simply pathetic.The fish that are resident in the rock bottomed sections of the Teton have virtually no blackspot and can really bend a rod.
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That is good to know. Is it mostly up from the dam ponds or all the way down the lower river?

I have enjoyed your first two posts. Welcome to BFT!
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It is present in the Valley, but you seldom see severe infections. Cutts are dying out in the Valley. It is minimally present to absent in the upper narrows. The same can be said about cutts. Bows have less incidence of blackspot and I assume that is due to the bows general preference for swift water habitat. There is a greater rate of infection in bows that live in slow water areas. The severe infections seem to occur in the slow, mucky pools created by the debris dams that start about a mile below the slide and continue down below the dam site. This habitat is favored by the cutts. There are many cutts from Bitch creek that winter over in the canyon pools and seem to pick it up then, so you'll find spotty cutts well up into that creek. All in all, the Teton is a bit of a sewer compared to its neighbor streams. It's the one local stream where you can pick up leeches and swimmer's itch and open wounds often get infected. Plus, the fish taste weedy/muddy.
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Again, a reminder, cutthroats cannot be kept on the Teton or its tributaries ( http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/public/fish...rSnake.pdf )

I do practice catch-and-release regularly, but there are times I enjoy a good fish dinner, but no cuttys from the Teton [cool]

Kelly.
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and its too bad cause some of the best fish ive ever grubbed on where cuts back in the day pulled out of the deep holes up in the canyon. Those were back in the minnow fishing days too though.
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