Ok, thanks for the info. When I started fishing in your state, my guess was a
big trout is a steelhead and everyting that is smaller than 25" is a rainbow or
a cutthroat. I didn't know anything about steelhead, cutthroat, dolly
varden..... Now, I've caught several of theses fish, I've caught some big ones
that were steelies for sure but for the smaller fish, I wasn't sure so I asked
you. I learnt something important, even if a fish doesn't have red slash, it
can be a SRC, that makes the identification harder, I'm not in luck.
Another question, are there any SRC on the N Fork without adipose fin? I'll
show you latter a bad photo of one fish that didn't have an adipose fin, it was
a 20" fish.
About salmon, can you tell me from what species is this one?
http://students.washington.edu/vpons/page2.html
thanks for your help,
Vincent
Scott Craig wrote:
> 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
