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fishues

Discussion Starter · Oct 25, 2016

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Hit an area 13 beach this morning on the incoming. Started out with top water but kept missing fish so switched to a clouser. My go to subsurface pattern has been a pink/ chart over white clouser tied on a tube. Action was pretty good for a bit with several 16" fish landed. Hooked this one and thought I had a coho for a minute. Easy 20" with a lot of girth. By far the largest cutthroat I have landed. Not the best photo, I didn't have my camera so I yelled for my buddy and he ran down the beach and snapped a couple pics. Put up a hell of a fight! Really interesting colors, very rosy cheeks, and as I'm typing this it really looks different than any other SRC I've caught.

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Matthew Gulbranson

· #2 · Oct 25, 2016

Wow, great fish!! Looks like a cutbow to me. Those fish stick with you for life, congrats on the awesome catch.

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Stonefish

· #3 · Oct 25, 2016

Great fish and the dog approves!
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fishues

Discussion Starter · #4 · Oct 25, 2016

Matthew Gulbranson said:
Wow, great fish!! Looks like a cutbow to me. Those fish stick with you for life, congrats on the awesome catch.

Thanks! Are there cuttbows in the sound? I wish I would have got a close up of it's head. I didn't want to stress the fish anymore than I had to.

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Nick Clayton

· #5 · Oct 25, 2016

Wow what a fish! Great job!

VIUcutthroat

· #6 · Oct 26, 2016

Very nice fish. Well done! Unless you have a genetics lab at your disposal, let's just call it a really nice cutthroat!

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GOTY

· #7 · Oct 26, 2016

Epic fish! I think our beloved Daniel Ocean caught that same fish on the sky a few years ago. It's the fish that keeps on giving to WFF!

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Bob Triggs

· #8 · Oct 26, 2016

"You can't win if you don't play." Congratulations on that beautiful trout!

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Bob Triggs

· #9 · Oct 26, 2016

fishues said:
Thanks! Are there cuttbows in the sound? I wish I would have got a close up of it's head. I didn't want to stress the fish anymore than I had to.

@fishues We see a few hybrid cutthroat x steelhead (rainbows) every year in the saltwater.

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COtoWA

· #10 · Oct 26, 2016

Nice one, that pic does justice to what you said. Not much action after you left, managed 2 and a couple of grabs

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SilverFly

· #11 · Oct 26, 2016

fishues said:
Hit an area 13 beach this morning on the incoming. Started out with top water but kept missing fish so switched to a clouser. My go to subsurface pattern has been a pink/ chart over white clouser tied on a tube. Action was pretty good for a bit with several 16" fish landed. Hooked this one and thought I had a coho for a minute. Easy 20" with a lot of girth. By far the largest cutthroat I have landed. Not the best photo, I didn't have my camera so I yelled for my buddy and he ran down the beach and snapped a couple pics. Put up a hell of a fight! Really interesting colors, very rosy cheeks, and as I'm typing this it really looks different than any other SRC I've caught. View attachment 127375
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Gorgeous fish. Love that golden/pinkish coloration. I've seen similar hues on some steelhead. That fish needs to be posted in the the trout gallery!

Kfish

· #12 · Oct 26, 2016

Way to go man!

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fishues

Discussion Starter · #13 · Oct 26, 2016

Bob Triggs said:
@fishues We see a few hybrid cutthroat x steelhead (rainbows) every year in the saltwater.

Who know's, I am definitely not at expert on ID'ing trout. I've got 1 bull trout in the salt and a steelhead last year. I wasn't really thinking about questioning that is was an SRC until I got home and looked at the pictures and zoomed in on the fins and the head. Thinking back to when I was fighting it, the rosy cheeks just didn't look "normal"It looked different than any other cutt i've caught, no yellow at all in the fins no slashes on the throat. I know there are many subtleties

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and variations on the markings/coloration of our cutthroat population and that's one of the beautiful things about fishing the sound. Nonetheless, wow it was one I will always remember

I cropped just the head, what a great smile it has!

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FinLuver

· #14 · Oct 26, 2016

fishues said:
Hit an area 13 beach this morning on the incoming. Started out with top water but kept missing fish so switched to a clouser. My go to subsurface pattern has been a pink/ chart over white clouser tied on a tube. Action was pretty good for a bit with several 16" fish landed. Hooked this one and thought I had a coho for a minute. Easy 20" with a lot of girth. By far the largest cutthroat I have landed. Not the best photo, I didn't have my camera so I yelled for my buddy and he ran down the beach and snapped a couple pics. Put up a hell of a fight! Really interesting colors, very rosy cheeks, and as I'm typing this it really looks different than any other SRC I've caught. View attachment 127375
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Agree with the cuttbow statement...

Chester Allen's book mention something about the larger SRCs (20+ fish) in the Sound being of the crossbreds.

[I'm no expert, just a reader]

ps: some guy named Bob Triggs is mentioned in it, like a gazillion times....in the first 50 pages.

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fishues

Discussion Starter · #15 · Oct 26, 2016

just waiting for someone to scream Atlantic Salmon

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chrome/22

· #16 · Oct 26, 2016 (Edited)

Rainbow perch?

Beautiful salty trout regardless of dna

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Cole L

· #17 · Oct 26, 2016

Looks like resident steelhead fishing is off to a great start

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fishues

Discussion Starter · #18 · Oct 26, 2016

Cole L said:
Looks like resident steelhead fishing is off to a great start

uh they closed that like everything else, check wdfw emergency rule changes

c-dawg

· #19 · Oct 26, 2016

I've always heard the run of steelhead on the Rogue are only that size. They call them half-pounders. Is there such a thing as a steelhead jack? It's interesting that there were no red stripes under the jaw.

Bob Triggs

· #20 · Oct 26, 2016 (Edited)

fishues said:
Who know's, I am definitely not at expert on ID'ing trout. I've got 1 bull trout in the salt and a steelhead last year. I wasn't really thinking about questioning that is was an SRC until I got home and looked at the pictures and zoomed in on the fins and the head. Thinking back to when I was fighting it, the rosy cheeks just didn't look "normal"It looked different than any other cutt i've caught, no yellow at all in the fins no slashes on the throat. I know there are many subtleties View attachment 127381 and variations on the markings/coloration of our cutthroat population and that's one of the beautiful things about fishing the sound. Nonetheless, wow it was one I will always remember I cropped just the head, what a great smile it has!

Looking at this picture the distal end of the lower jaw, maxilla, is not extending beyond the eye. So it's looking like a cutthroat X rainbow hybrid to me. In other previous discussions on these forums you will find mention of this feature being a reliable indicator of rainbow genetics being present or dominant. In cutthroat the mouth will be extending rearward, past the eye.

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