Northwest Fishing Reports

Some time ago this topic was brought up on a Mean Mouth Bass. I thought it might be fun to do this fish, even though it will be easy, well maybe.

Have a little fun and do the research; can you identify this fish?

OK, let's try this again. Warning, it might not be as easy as you think, and if you want, PM me and I'll e-mail you a higher resolution photo you can zoom in on.

It looks like the fish my father and I caught in Anahim Lake, BC when I was but a high school student in the 80's. The fish up there were mostly hybrid cuttbows, rainbow and cutthroats, though up there they called them cuttheads. The fish pictured looks to have been hatchery raised as the tail fin shows signs of re-growth after being worn down.

looks like a cuttbow to me or a hybrid of somesorts with rainbow mixed in

donaldson?

a big cutbow whos parents were and cutt+bow? loool idk never seen one of those before

I think I'll just go ahead and mix things up a bit. I believe the fish pictured is, at best, a hybrid rainbow entering the spawn stage. I don’t think its a cutbow because the skin color is not yellow enough and the spots on its body are much smaller than the average cutbow.

Toni wrote:Not as bright

Now that looks like a cutbow. Yellow tent with big spots

Lahontan Cutthroat?

Could that be a Rainbow/Coastal Cutt cross...rather than a Rainbow/Westslope Cutt Cross? Even pure Coastal Cutts look a lot like 'Bows, y'know.

I'm going to have to go Brood Stock Bow. Notice the tail is worn off on the edges from swimming in a cement pond.

Cuttbow that was adopted and raised by single Donaldson:-"
disclaimer: no disrespect to single parents intended. my wife left town for a week recently,, and i don't know how single parents do it, honestly.

i agree with the majority.. cuttbow. eventhough i've never seen one in real life just by the cutthroat slashes under the jaw and rainbow stripe on the side i would say cuttbow

Can you send me a "hunk" of DNA (one fillet will work just fine... ) Anglinarcher??
Some sort of hybrid is my guess.....tough to tell exactly what though.

It's a nice fish in my book, whatever it is!!

dead donaldson for me also.

See the head shape and coloring.Its a Donaldson Steelhead mix .Those were raised in the hatchery at Seward Park.Donaldsons have that cutty look.

Atlantic Salmon and RBT cross.

Why didn't anyone see it before?

FRANKINTROUT????

Its a muskie wearing a trout costume