Help settle an argument – what species of trout is this?
In SW Montana for context
Posted by green_monster14
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bo_tweetle on
I would call it a snake river cutt
saul_weinstien on
Did that trout just rip a huge binger?
modsarecancer42069 on
Cutty
TxAgg07 on
Fine spotted snake river cutthroat
cmonster556 on
The joys of modern DNA research have lumped snake river cutts in with Yellowstone cutts. This looks like what I would have, a nail I saw a few papers, have called a snake river. Lots of very small spots.
If it’s in its native range you can often presume it’s a (whatever) cutthroat. I fish a few places with cutts that are mostly pure strain fish, but go downstream a ways and it’s a mix of genes. I’ve caught (what looked like) snake rivers in several places well outside the snake river drainage. They are stocked in many places.
The only way to 100% know what a cutthroat/rainbow is, is to spend some money in a lab. Otherwise, like most of us, you look at it and go “it looks like a…”. In many drainages you can have fish all along the spectrum from rainbows to cutts.
It’s one of the traditions in the west to call a fish a cutbow, so you can say you caught one.
kabula_lampur on
Body color, spot pattern, and slight red jaw line says cutthroat trout to me. Colors don’t seem right for a cutbow.
pandainsomniac on
Cutty…of some sort? Doesn’t really look like a cutbow to me though.
IntestinalEndorphins on
Western Slope Cutthroat
Musclecity on
Most of the ones I catch around here look like that and they’re Westslope cutthroats . I’m just north of Montana .
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I would call it a snake river cutt
Did that trout just rip a huge binger?
Cutty
Fine spotted snake river cutthroat
The joys of modern DNA research have lumped snake river cutts in with Yellowstone cutts. This looks like what I would have, a nail I saw a few papers, have called a snake river. Lots of very small spots.
If it’s in its native range you can often presume it’s a (whatever) cutthroat. I fish a few places with cutts that are mostly pure strain fish, but go downstream a ways and it’s a mix of genes. I’ve caught (what looked like) snake rivers in several places well outside the snake river drainage. They are stocked in many places.
The only way to 100% know what a cutthroat/rainbow is, is to spend some money in a lab. Otherwise, like most of us, you look at it and go “it looks like a…”. In many drainages you can have fish all along the spectrum from rainbows to cutts.
It’s one of the traditions in the west to call a fish a cutbow, so you can say you caught one.
Body color, spot pattern, and slight red jaw line says cutthroat trout to me. Colors don’t seem right for a cutbow.
Cutty…of some sort? Doesn’t really look like a cutbow to me though.
Western Slope Cutthroat
Most of the ones I catch around here look like that and they’re Westslope cutthroats . I’m just north of Montana .
Smoked Trout?