fish identification

akochman09 · Post by **akochman09** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 7:26 pm

Me and my buddy were fishing the skagit for summer steelies and we found a hole with a bunch of trout in it, where my friend hooked this weird looking cutt. He says its a westlope, any ideas of what this fish is? you can see the "cuts" in the picture, but the spots are only in the tail and the back whereas a typical cutt in western washington will have spots all over the place. A beautiful fish, he was released unharmed. I thought westslopes were only native to montana...

saltyseadog · Post by **saltyseadog** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 8:34 pm

were you on the upper or lower skagit?

cogitator · Post by **cogitator** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 8:36 pm

In the 1950s some places in Washington were planted with Montana Black Spot Trout. I haven't seen one in many, many years, but that's what they looked like.

BentRod · Post by **BentRod** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 8:48 pm

Cutbow?

akochman09 · Post by **akochman09** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 9:14 pm

we were just above hamilton, we launched there then headed upstream. The montana black spot theory makes sense. I don't think it was a cutbow because cutbows usually have more spots. They look like a cutthroat with a pink stripe down their side and pink on the cheeks. I was also thinkin it could be a lahontan cutt? idk though.

stevoblue · Post by **stevoblue** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 9:40 pm

Did it have those teeth on the back of the tongue?

wintersteelhead · Post by **wintersteelhead** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 3:11 pm

Sea-run cutt. Look how chrome and shiny it is. River cutts have alot more colors

flyfisher31 · Post by **flyfisher31** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 5:40 pm

wintersteelhead wrote:Sea-run cutt. Look how chrome and shiny it is. River cutts have alot more colors

+1

rjn cajun · Post by **rjn cajun** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 7:25 pm

I don`t do alot of trout fishing but that is a pretty fish.

cogitator · Post by **cogitator** » Mon Jul 26, 2010 7:39 pm

wintersteelhead wrote:Sea-run cutt. Look how chrome and shiny it is. River cutts have alot more colors

searun cutts can indeed be very bright and shiny, but they have a lot more spots on all of their body.

Splitshot · Post by **Splitshot** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:12 pm

Pretty fish but not a Lahontan. Not even close

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Tue Jul 27, 2010 10:22 pm

That is indeed a fascinating specimen. Would have been a pleasure to catch something like that.

I googled westslope cutts and it looks like that could be what it was:

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