12-10-2008, 04:45 PM
[quote MI_Steelheader]I am convinced that cutbows (pound for pound) are some of the hardest fighting fish in freshwater. That's one of the reasons that I love fishing at Henry's (the Lake and the Fork). I have also caught cutbows on the Green and they put other fish of similar size to shame. I did not know that they had any in Strawberry. Here's a picture of my first at the Berry. He pulled out more line that many bigger cutts I have run into up there.
For the record, he taped out at 22 inches. Given some of the recent posts on this forum, I will not comment on weight, although he definitely had good girth and big shoulders.
Has anyone else caught hybrids up there? Has the DWR stocked them?[/quote]
Your love of cuttbows is all fine and dandy...BUT, you are holding a dandy rainbow!
The UDWR does NOT stock cuttbows and the rainbows stocked in Strawberry are not fertile--they are triploid.
Rainbows will often have slashes under the jaw just as cutts--just not as marked.
According to Roger Wilson: "Most anglers that have caught a lot of rainbows know that if you look at the size of the scales, the head shape, the spotting on the head those are great characteristics for rainbow. We need to educate people that if you have white tipped anal and pelvic fins that is a rainbow. I see a lot of anglers at Strawberry calling fish hybrids that are not."
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For the record, he taped out at 22 inches. Given some of the recent posts on this forum, I will not comment on weight, although he definitely had good girth and big shoulders.
Has anyone else caught hybrids up there? Has the DWR stocked them?[/quote]
Your love of cuttbows is all fine and dandy...BUT, you are holding a dandy rainbow!
The UDWR does NOT stock cuttbows and the rainbows stocked in Strawberry are not fertile--they are triploid.
Rainbows will often have slashes under the jaw just as cutts--just not as marked.
According to Roger Wilson: "Most anglers that have caught a lot of rainbows know that if you look at the size of the scales, the head shape, the spotting on the head those are great characteristics for rainbow. We need to educate people that if you have white tipped anal and pelvic fins that is a rainbow. I see a lot of anglers at Strawberry calling fish hybrids that are not."
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