Yes, the top fish is a Dolly Varden/bull trout (native char) and the
bottom has the spotting pattern of a S.R. Cutthroat. It's hard to see if
the lower maxilary of the mouth extends past the rear orbit of the eye,
indicative of a cutthroat. It could be a rainbow/cutthroat hybrid? Not
all S.R. Cutthroat have the characteristic red slash.
I have only caught one resident type rainbow on the NF Stilly (12 inch).
During my snorkel, I did not see any.
Keith, sounds like you caught all the fish I observed except whitefish.
All of the whitefish were ganged up in one glide below Hazel.
Scott Craig
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Keith Ayers wrote:
> The top fish is a Dolly Varden. The bottom fish looks like a sea run
> Cutthroat in spawning colors or maybe a rainbow. I don't think it's a
> steelhead. From what I have seen there are some nice sized resident
> rainbows in the Stilly but they seem to be few and far between.
>
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