Interesting information about speciation in Sunday and Loch Katrine.
Where'd you find it?
I'd swear that the Sunday Lake fish were a mix of RBs and cutts since
so many of them did not seem to have the characteristic twin red
slashes beneath their jaw or the slashes were quite pale in color
with the pink/rainbow hue of a RB on their sides.
I did catch some unusually marked fish with pronounced dark spots
like a brown on their backs and sides; silver, not colored sides; and
a cutt's red throat slashes. They seemed to be at the larger end of
the size range, 14-15".
Perhaps they were holdover Coastal cutts and the others first-year fish?
Wonder if the WDFW has planted Sunday in the past with RBs?
Thanks,
Kent
>Loch Katrine has a spawning population of RB.
>
>Sunday Lake is near Loch Katrine. The fish in Sunday are pure strain
>cutthroat. Coastal cutthroat. The coastals are spotted all over so they can
>look a bit like RB, but they are pure strain cutts.
>
>Jeff Mix
