02-06-2025, 03:02 PM
Great fish, for sure. But they do not automatically prosper and grow to great size wherever they are planted. The cutts in Pyramid Lake these days are not from the original population. Those fish all died out as a result of over harvest and water problems...which the tribe ultimately got fixed. The current population of cutts are descendants from a rare pure strain Lahontan habitat in the high mountains of far eastern Nevada. And in those waters the fish rarely got into the teen-inch category. But several generations of living in the favorable ecology of the newly regulated Pyramid Lake allowed them to grow into their genetic potential. It has been estimated that they would grow to about the same sizes as our Bonny cutts in the same waters.
When I lived in Sacramento...mid 1970's...Pyramid was a fave winter water. And I caught Lahontans up to almost 20 pounds...on big articulated black bou-flies. Broke my heart to read of the decline of the lake and the Lahontans after I moved away. Happy to see it coming back so well. BFTer GSP has made a few successful trips over there in years past. Really quite a neat fishery. And some good videos on YouTube. YouTube Videos
When I lived in Sacramento...mid 1970's...Pyramid was a fave winter water. And I caught Lahontans up to almost 20 pounds...on big articulated black bou-flies. Broke my heart to read of the decline of the lake and the Lahontans after I moved away. Happy to see it coming back so well. BFTer GSP has made a few successful trips over there in years past. Really quite a neat fishery. And some good videos on YouTube. YouTube Videos