speaking of cutthroats...

[Kyle Smith]

Here's one of my favorite photos I've seen in a while:

[Jim Wallace]

Dang! Coolkyle, is there a story to go along with that? That's the biggest searun i've ever seen, even in a photo!:eek:

[Kyle Smith]

I was just browsing the web looking at searun porn, and found this picture. This guy is a guide, and this fish (over 7lbs) was caught out of Lk. Washington, gutted, and eaten. I can imagine it's hard for this guy to pass up eating something, even the state record SRC.

[TomB]

many "state record" cutts exist in lk wash. and are seen every year in trib spawning surveys

[chadk]

That's 1\2 the size a guy caught out of there a few years ago. THAT was big cuttie!

[Smalma]

While the Lake Washington cutthroat are coastal cutthroat very few are actually sea-run fish. They are instead lake dwelling/adfluvial fish who drop out of the tribs to rear in the lake growing quickly on a diet of mostly smelt and sticklebacks.

The fish in the picture is likely a 5 year old fish - much larger than your typcial 5 year sea-run which I would expect to be in the 15/16 inch range. In recent years some very large Lake Washington cutts have been caught, the largest was one 29.25 inch fish that weighted nearly 15 pounds (a fish in its 8 year).

Tight lines
curt

[Kyle Smith]

Absolutely ridiculous cutthroats! I don't think I'd eat one, though. Too much poop and oil in that lake.

[Smalma]

see the attached for a health advisory regarding Lake Washington Cutts -

http://www.doh.wa.gov/ehp/oehas/EHA_fish_adv.htm#Lake%20Washington

Tight lines
Curt

[gigharborflyfisher]

That is definetly a huge cutthroat!!

[troutingham]

They are big!!! a friend of mine caught one like that right off his dock!!!!

[Les Johnson]

A 14-1/2 pound coastal cutthroat was caught a few years back out of Lake Washington. It was taken trolling with pop geer and worms -- right along the 520 bridge, as I recall. It was the cover image on F&H News. I did take a coastal cutthroat of 26-inches and probably close to 6-pounds. Curt figured that it may have been a cutthroat/summer steelhead hybrid. It is the largest searun cutthroat I've ever caught, or seen in more than fifty years of fishing for the critters.
Good Fishing,
Les Johnson

[Stonefish]

Here is a link to a picture of the fish Les is talking about.
http://www.holidaysports.net/photog1.jpg
This is a toad. 14.99 lbs!

[hendersonbaylocal]

Here is a link to a picture of the fish Les is talking about.
http://www.holidaysports.net/photog1.jpg
This is a toad. 14.99 lbs!

Saw one at least that big roll under the boat a few weeks ago. Tried casting to it but it was DEEP down and I was fishing on the surface with a reverse spider!

[Stonefish]

Saw one at least that big roll under the boat a few weeks ago. Tried casting to it but it was DEEP down and I was fishing on the surface with a reverse spider!

HBL,
You are talking about a coastal cutt from Lake Washington, not a searun cutt from the salt, correct?
Brian

[hendersonbaylocal]

HBL,
You are talking about a coastal cutt from Lake Washington, not a searun cutt from the salt, correct?
Brian

Searun cutt... It could have been a salmon but it really looked like an SRC to me. Sorry for the digression; I guess we are talking about lake fish here.

[Stonefish]

If you saw a 14 lb searun cutt, I need to know where you were fishing! ;) Likely a salmon as you had mentioned. As hard as a 16" searun fights, if someone did hook one that weighed 14lb, that would be a hell of a fight. A searun that size would also likely be something like 20 years old.
Brian

[hendersonbaylocal]

If you saw a 14 lb searun cutt, I need to know where you were fishing! ;) Likely a salmon as you had mentioned. As hard as a 16" searun fights, if someone did hook one that weighed 14lb, that would be a hell of a fight. A searun that size would also likely be something like 20 years old.
Brian

Yeah, so I did some research and it looks like the state record for a searun cutthroat in the salt is 6 lbs, so that fish was probably a salmon! There are some big fish that hang out in this hole though... I'd tell you where it is, but then I'd have to kill you :D .

[salt dog]

.... There are some big fish that hang out in this hole though... I'd tell you where it is, but then I'd have to kill you :D .

Hey HBL, how about if you tell me, then kill stonefish? sounds fair to me! :clown: