Cutthroat Trout Cross-Breeds to Survive

Is this the end of Montana's famed cutthroat trout in the face of invasive rainbow trout, stream temperature rise and flow changes?

LINK (via: Scientific American)

1,000th Angler Completes the Wyoming Cutt Slam Challenge

When Riverton angler Matt LeClair submitted his paperwork after completing the requirements for Wyoming’s Cutt-Slam he had no idea that his entry would be the one to achieve the milestone of the 1,000th angler for this 17-year-old Game and Fish program.

LINK (via: County 10)

Meanwhile, angler concerns have prompted the Wyoming Game and Fish Department to postpone a proposed project to restore native Yellowstone cutthroat trout in the upper Porcupine Creek drainage east of Lovell.

LINK (via: The Billings Gazette)

Wyoming nears 1,000th Cutt-Slam participant

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department expects to receive an application this summer from the 1,000th person to quality for the state’s Cutt-Slam, a program that celebrates wild trout.

To complete the Cutt-Slam, anglers need to document catching Wyoming’s four subspecies of cutthroat in their native range in the state. The four subspecies are the Yellowstone, Snake River, Bonneville and Colorado River cutthroat.

LINK (via: The Gillette News Record)

June 2013 SOTM Entry: Cutty

Matt Guymon tricked this beast with a dry.

Alvord Cutthroat Trout, Not Extinct After All?

Someone might have to update the Alvord cutthroat trout Wiki page.

Alvord cutthroat trout were a subspecies of cutthroat trout native to the Alvord Basin of southeast Oregon. It is believed they went extinct in their pure form due to hybridization with Rainbow trout which were introduced into the Alvord basin in the 1920s.

In 2005, Dr Robert Behnke wrote an article in Trout Magazine titled Ivory-Billed Trout where he noted that there were records of Alvord cutthroat being stocked into an unknown stream of a neighboring basin. This transplant took place in 1928, prior to the introduction of rainbow trout into the Alvord Basin leaving open the possibility that another population might exist.

Now the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has devised a plan to capture some specimens and determine whether they exhibit the phenotypic features of known Alvord cutthroat specimens.

LINK (via:The Wild Life News)

Read more about the effort to establish a population of Alvord cutthroat at Kortum of Discovery.

Dec. SOTM Entry: Pyramid Cutt

A size 8 midge fooled a size XL cutt.