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October 20, 2006 at 12:01 am #81424
A little birdy told me that a couple large westslope cutthroat trout were presented to the DFW earlier this week. If certified by Olympia, one of these will most likely be the new state record, besting the old (2005) record by a very large margin. 😀
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October 20, 2006 at 2:52 am #85650
C’mon, lets see ’em! They don’t have be certified for us to ogle the photos. 😀
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November 15, 2006 at 5:06 pm #85651
Got the certificate back from the state a couple days ago.. They messed up and listed it wrong but hopefully I can get that fixed. 😡
Old record 2.41 lbs, new record 4.71 lbs. 20.5 inches.
Hauled two fish out, the second one was over 2″ longer and looked much bigger but actually weighed in at 4.205 lbs.Picture here: http://www.rivercolor.com/images/westy.jpg
Video on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHIHePZJbDo
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November 15, 2006 at 5:34 pm #85652
Sooperfly, I edited your post so the picture displays directly. I hope you don’t mind. If that’s a problem let me know and I’ll fix it.
That is one beautiful fish. I love the video, it really shows just how big that fish is. And where are the pics of the other CT you caught that day?
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November 15, 2006 at 5:52 pm #85653
Brian,
No problem embedding the picture, I didn’t because I thought it might be a tad bit wide. I’ll put up a picture of the smaller fish when I get home. Kinda a bummer that it weighed less, besides being longer it just looked bigger. Go figure.
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November 16, 2006 at 4:41 am #85654
Here are a couple pics of the smaller (weight-wise) cutty.
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November 16, 2006 at 6:05 am #85655
I was surprised to see what style of lake that came out of in the video. The bank is close to vertical, well maybe not vertical but its pretty steep. Im guessing due to the depth the fish was able to live long enough to where it could eat other fish. Im guessing there were more than a few small ifsh in that lake. Thats just my guess, i could be completely wrong and the lake is full of insects and thats how it got that big.
Is this a statewide record for cutthroat, or is it a high lakes record? Is it record for a subspecies of cutthroat or just cutthroat in general? Ohh, and where would i be able to look up records for fish like this?
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November 16, 2006 at 8:12 am #85656
The state currently lists four types of cutthroat. Click the link below for a listing
The records are for state-wide, not just “high” or “low” lakes.
Not having cut the fishies open (yet) I couldn’t tell you what they were eating. I can tell you the lake isn’t very deep and it’s chock full of insects, including a high-lake troutie favorite, scuds. I didn’t observe a single small fish in 4 days. I do know it was planted in the last couple years. All those fry had either become fish food or were hiding outta sight. And in that time I watched several hatches and never once saw a fish either feed from the surface or jump. Some people had told me the lake was barren as they neither caught or saw anything on their trips.
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November 16, 2006 at 11:11 pm #85657
wow, i wouold have bet money that that lake is what people would consider a “deep” lake. I guess the bank all of a sudden flattens out.
It looks like the westslope record is the only reachable one for high lake fisherman. Looks like if i want a record i gotta head east a little bit.
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November 17, 2006 at 6:06 am #85658
I doubt the rainbow record will ever come out of an alpine lake, but you might check some threads on here about other fish. If you want to chase records in the mountains the golden trout record is a doable one. 😀 😀
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November 18, 2006 at 12:42 am #85659
Mr. Sooperfly,
Hey, when you get a chance would you mind sending me a private email with the T/R/S where you caught these fish. If that doesn’t work Lat. & Long. would be fine.
Wow, what a slab. I’m surprised it wasn’t a little longer than 20.5 inches to be that heavy. Thanks for sharing. -
November 18, 2006 at 6:25 am #85660
@RPBrown wrote:
Mr. Sooperfly,
Hey, when you get a chance would you mind sending me a private email with the T/R/S where you caught these fish. If that doesn’t work Lat. & Long. would be fine.
Wow, what a slab. I’m surprised it wasn’t a little longer than 20.5 inches to be that heavy. Thanks for sharing.Hmm, I would but I bumped my head after I got home and don’t remember where I went? 😆
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November 21, 2006 at 8:47 pm #85661
haha….hey, good answer! Thanks again for sharing. Most impressive!!
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November 22, 2006 at 1:49 am #85662
Nice fish, It would be stupid to give up where you caughtthe fish. Everyone and there mother would be up there. We all have out fishing holes up there, it just takes time to find them.
Caveman
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November 22, 2006 at 3:26 am #85663
Yep, I couldn’t agree more. I was just kidding.
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November 27, 2006 at 9:39 pm #85664
Super fish! Great video BTW.
McPil
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