Vincent, While I would say that the first picture appears to be a Dolly Varden, the second certainly seems to have at least the spotting pattern that would be more typical of a coastal cutthroat than a steelhead, it would be hard to say without closer examination. It is possible that it is a resident rainbow. Most of our coastal streams have very small surviving populations of native rainbows similar to the redside rainbows of the interior. These fish are more commonly encountered in the late summer when lack of water drives them down out of the smaller tributaries into the main river. Perhaps the extreme dry conditions that have prevailed this winter have had a similar effect.
