Satsop river trout

[finnman]

A cutt and a cuttbow from the June 1st opener.

[boneaddict]

Nice lookin trout.  I've only fished the Satsop for Chums and the occasional silver.

[jackelope]

beauties...do they have saltwater access??
not familiar with the river.
i was thinking sea-run cutt and maybe a steelhead smolt?
just out of curiosity, what makes you say cutt-bow?

[finnman]

My family settled in the Chehalis river valley just down stream from the mouth of the Satsop around 1910. We were finnish potato farmers till the nuke plant on the hill bought it all up Ruined a great area! My grand father and grandmother's ashes are spread in a small stream that ran out of the hills there called Big creek. But enough with the family history. There are resident cuttroat and searun cutts in the Satsop. If you look in the regs it is the only Peninsula river that you are allowed to keep them from. We don't, we just love catching them! There are also resident rainbows and or steelhead. 3 years ago in the same hole, using a similar spinner I caught a 4 lb. 23 inch cuttbow. You can tell the difference by pulling down on the lower jaw and looking at the throat in the same spot that a cutt would have an orange slash. Also a dead giveaway is if it has an over sized body for its length. A cuttbow is sterile and can't breed, so they spend all their time feeding like a triploid.

Jason R.

[jackelope]

thanks finnman...was never sure how to id them.

[boneaddict]

I actually like the family history part.  And the cutthroat history.  Did you see my fish picture from the mountains this weekend with the rainbow, west slope cutt, and I think cuttbow from those two species?   

[finnman]

No I somehow missed those pics. I sure would like to see them, I love cutts, there may favorite trout. Can you post them here Boneaddict or tell me which topic there in?

Thanks, Finnman

[boneaddict]

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,1021.0.html


Here is is I believe.  "High Mountain Adventure"  The hybrid was a goreous fish.

[finnman]

Just awesome! That trout in the middle has some suspicous characteristics about it. Looks like you have some real troopers there to!

Finnman

[finnman]

another pic, top cuttbow. Bottom redside from the Blitzen river on the Steens mnt. in SE Oregon.