Cutbow?

I have caught similar fish in stocked systems here in PA that don’t have cut throat and was told that some stocked bows will get that based on what they were fed in the hatchery. Not sure if it’s true but the only reasoning I had been told.
 
The markings on the back appear similar to Tigers, any Brook trout in that lake; is there a chance a Cutthroat could cross with a Brook in the wild? Beautiful fish.
 
Looks very much like a tiger trout except that it's actually a trout and not a char. Suppose it could be a funky looking coastal cutthroat?
 
I'm not seeing any bow in it. The markings on the back really are interesting, but I still think it's just coastal cutt. Sometimes in lakes it seems like they can get some really cool variations - maybe based on bottom color and diet?

Are coastal/westslope hybrids a thing? Seems like they should be. Westys have some markings that are bigger and bolder like that sometimes.
 
dflett68 said:
I'm not seeing any bow in it. The markings on the back really are interesting, but I still think it's just coastal cutt. Sometimes in lakes it seems like they can get some really cool variations - maybe based on bottom color and diet?

Are coastal/westslope hybrids a thing? Seems like they should be. Westys have some markings that are bigger and bolder like that sometimes.
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I was looking at the white on the fins, plus thinking maybe the vermiculations were a result of hybridization, but you're right - I have seen white on some coastals
 
I vote: very, very nice fishy. One for the memory banks for sure...
 
Amazing fish ! A question to those in the know. How many hatcheries are raising coastal cutthroat for put and take lakes? I know even in the Olympics the trout in most lakes are westslope cutts and brook trout.

Aren't many of the westside hatchery fish planted now many generations of mixed down combination coastal cutthroat and rainbow? Like Pekin ducks (white) bred with mallards, you never know what coloration you will get generations down the road.

Seems that perhaps some rainbow trout spotting is coming through on this beautiful "mostly" coastal ? Maybe a unique straight up coastal?
 
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A cutthroat.

I too was looking at the fish's fins. Based on the deformed dorsal fin and pectoral fin the fish is off hatchery origin (likely with extensive rearing time). A quick scan of WDFW's 2022 stocking plan shows no Rainbow/Cutthroat hybrids being planted in the OP counties.

Curt
 
dep said:
come on.... Atlantic salmon.
someone was bound to say it at some point.

gorgeous fish - how did it fight?
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Daaaaaaamn, that took way too long and it didn’t even cross my mind as I was reading this

Solid work
 
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