Help me Identify?

[Bronco66]

I was fishing the Truckee in downtown Reno over vacation and I caught me some Cutthroat, but I was wondering what strain of Cutt they are! Please help. Thanks!
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[TheWhizzle]

That looks to be a Bonneville Cutthroat trout - Onchorhynchus clarkii utah.


It is a native fish of Nevada.
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[TheWhizzle]

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[cpierce]

Are Bonnevilles in the Truckee?

I think the native cutts there are Lahontan Cutthroats.
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[iamthesmf]

Lahontan cutthroat trout (LCT), the only trout species native to the Basin.

They are in Lake Tahoe also.

[url "http://www.ndow.org/about/news/pr/2011/july/lct_release.shtm"]http://www.ndow.org/about/news/pr/2011/july/lct_release.shtm[/url]
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[TheWhizzle]

According to the literature I have, Nevada's native trout species include:

[ul][li]Lahontan cutthroat trout in both stream and lake form.[/li][li]Bonneville cutthroat trout[/li][li]Columbia River redband trout[/li][li]Bull trout[/li][/ul]
The Lahontan is considered "threatened".

Bonneville cutthroat trout historically were found in the Bonneville basin of western Utah. southwestern Wyoming, and extreme eastern Nevada. In Nevada, Bonneville cutthroat occur naturally in only a few isolated streams near the Utah-Nevada state line on the east side of the Snake Range in White Pine County. Some habitat at higher elevations is within Great Basin National Park. A few out-of-basin introductions into other streams have occurred, including Goshute Creek.
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[GEEZER]

For the whatever it's worth dept.

The situation may have changed but there were three streams on the west side of the Snake range that held pure strains of Bonneville cutthroat. Pine & Ridge Creeks and Williams Creek. I fished them longer ago than I care to think. For a long time Pine & Ridge were closed to protect the strain, dunno about now.

In the very early 1950's I accompanied the White Pine County Game Warden, Mr. Bob Dickey to the Nevada hatchery in Verdi NV where we got a pickup load of Lahontan cutthroat fingerlings. We stayed in Reno & had to get up @ 3:00 AM, pick up about 400 lb of ice which we put into a screened off section in the tank then go get the fish. Bob pushed that old '50 or '51 Chev. 3/4 ton for all it was worth to get back to Ely & then on to Swallows ranch in Spring Valley & get the fish into a rearing pond before the water in the truck got too warm. I accompanied him on several pack trips when we took some of those fingerlings in 5 gal milk cans strapped to pack horses into the headwaters of Taft, McCoy, Odgers & Little Negro creeks. We stayed at my uncle Bert Robisons ranch while we did this. I had to go back to Ely & I think Bob also packed some of them into Piermont and Basset Creeks after I left. He and some other Ely sportsmen also packed some Lahontan Cutthroat (all I know for sure about those fish is that they were Cutthroat) picked up on a later trip into Baker Lake in what is now Great Basin Natl. Park. I went with on that trip too but didn't have a horse so just hung around the USFS snow survey cabin on Baker Creek the day they took the fish into the lake.

Hendry Creek on the east side of Mt. Moriah used to have Cutthroat in it too but somebody introduced Brook Trout. I caught a lot of both when I was a kid.
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[BaySport]

Great story. Thanks for sharing.
BaySport
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