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Title: Satsop river trout
Post by: finnman on July 25, 2007, 01:43:43 PM

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

Title: Re: Satsop river trout
Post by: boneaddict on July 25, 2007, 03:36:04 PM

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

Title: Re: Satsop river trout
Post by: jackelope on July 25, 2007, 03:39:33 PM

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?

Title: Re: Satsop river trout
Post by: finnman on July 25, 2007, 04:50:47 PM

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 :dunno: 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.

Title: Re: Satsop river trout
Post by: jackelope on July 25, 2007, 05:21:47 PM

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

Title: Re: Satsop river trout
Post by: boneaddict on July 25, 2007, 05:37:45 PM

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?   

Title: Re: Satsop river trout
Post by: finnman on July 25, 2007, 08:51:52 PM

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

Title: Re: Satsop river trout
Post by: boneaddict on July 26, 2007, 06:14:48 AM

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

Title: Re: Satsop river trout
Post by: finnman on July 26, 2007, 08:21:42 AM

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

Finnman

Title: Re: Satsop river trout
Post by: finnman on July 26, 2007, 02:34:40 PM

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