Sorry Gary, but my experience with cutthroat and rainbows runs the
opposite as yours ;-)
My money's on water temperature as the main reason Ken's CTs didn't
protest as much as he/we might have been expected.
I don't know much about west slope or Yellowstone CTs, but I've found
the coastal CTs in western WA and OR to be far scrappier fighters
than their RB cousins. (Assuming of course that other variables like
water and barometric temperature, time of year, elevation, etc. are
similar, and that the RBs in question aren't triploids!)
You're correct in noting that CTs are much more likely than RBs to
rise to a dry fly. As many a successful stillwater fisher knows, a
dry fly cast close to shore can tempt even the most bugger-wary fish
to rise, including RBs. I'm not sure that a taste for dry flies
necessarily makes a fish dumb, CT or RB.
Kent Lufkin
>My personal experience with cuthroats in general is that they don't have
>nearly the vinegar in them as rainbows or browns. And easier to catch,
>particularly on dries. We used to fish the Madison River in Montana in
>during the month of September and when we were working real hard for very
>few fish, the question would arise, "Should we run up to the Park and fish
>the Yellowstone River for big, dumb cuthroats?" (We did.)
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was up in this part of the world a couple of weeks
>> ago and fished the Elk and the St Mary's. Beautiful
>> country. Fished mostly caddis. Working structure and
>> seams, I found fish pretty much everywhere you would
>> expect them to be.
>>
>> I have a question, though. This was the first time I
>> had ever fished for west slope cutts. Almost to a
>> fish, they put up no fight. After the first charge,
>> it was all over. I caught some fat 16-18" fish that I
>> pretty much stripped in. A little 12" upper
>> Snoqualmie cutt battles harder.
>>
>> Maybe it was the heat (30-32 C), or the water level
>> (didn't seem like there was much in the tributaries,
>> but the fly shop in Kimberly said it wasn't unusual.)
>> Has anyone else noticed this about this species, or
>> was I just there at a bad time?
>>
>> --ken
>>
>>
>> --- Gary Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I was on the Elk three summers ago in mid-August. We
>>> fished lots of
>>> hopper/stimulator patterns which the cutts were on.
>>> Fished various beadheads
>>> (prince, pheasant tails) for cutts and big nymphs on
>>> the bottom for the
>>> bulls, which were a lot more elusive. My son and I
>>> floated with a guide the
>>> first day to get the lay of the land, and I rented a
>>> kick boat the next day
>>> and fished it alone. There's a nice fly
>>> shop/outfitter in town. Long drive
>>> from Seattle, though, for a long weekend. Spokane
>>> would certainly be a
>>> better launch point.
>>>
>>>
>>> Just had a customer in the shop a day ago who just
>>> came back from
>>> there--fishing is good and as stated, uncowded.
>>> Seems he mentioned
>>> grasshoppers and caddis imitations, both nymphs and
>>> drys.
>>> Chuck S (Silver Bow Fly Shop, Spokane)
>>>
>>>
>>> Fishing East Central Florida - Flyfishing
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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