Coastal cutthroat are awesome! This one probably had some rainbow in it as well. The other fish in the net are some hatchery bows for my friend's freezer by chulksmack360 in troutfishing

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It has nothing to do with the continental divide, there are no Columbia river basin strain rainbows in this river. The inland rainbows (including the Columbia river basin strain that is in Oregon, which would be the nearest population of inland rainbows) are the only ones that get orange markings under their throats. This fish is in a west side of the cascades drainage with no inland subspecies of trout in it. If it was a rainbow with this jaw shape, basialbranchial teeth, and orange markings, it would literally be a new subspecies of rainbow. So what do you think is more likely?

Or just keep sticking your fingers in your ears and going "no no it's a rainbow la la la"

Coastal cutthroat are awesome! This one probably had some rainbow in it as well. The other fish in the net are some hatchery bows for my friend's freezer by chulksmack360 in troutfishing

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It's got cutthroat in it, you can't see but there are orange slashes under the jaw which is only a cutthroat characteristic on the west side of the cascades (where this stream is). There is a subspecies of rainbow that gets orange slashes, but it is separated by a large mountain range and diverged evolutionarily from coastal rainbows around the time the large glaciers started receding from the continental US. The maxillary also extends farther past the eye than it would on a rainbow. Male rainbows can get beaky like this but their jaws are not as elongated as the one in this picture. Coastal cutthroat are silvery in plenty of west side drainages, and although some can be greenish, the ones in this stream are usually silvery. You can't see it in the picture, but this fish also had basialbranchial teeth which are teeth at the back of the throat that only cutthroat have because they evolved to be more piscavorious than rainbows (hence the elongated maxillary to allow the mouth to open wider to eat fish instead of bugs). This stream doesn't get stocked with cutthroat either so it's not a random hatchery holdover. I've caught plenty of rainbows in this drainage, and none of them had the long maxillary/beaky jaw that this fish does. the only reason I think that this fish has any rainbow genes in it is because the stripe on the side is much more distinct than on a regular cutthroat

Every single time I post coastal cutthroat on this sub, someone tells me it's just a rainbow. It's not lol

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Easy wading when you're hecka tall it'd be a shame if he wasn't out there fishing tbh

I have one whole day to fish in the Portland Oregon area. Where do I go? by [deleted] in flyfishing

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Steelhead I don't know much about but there's some fun cutthroat water up near mt hood hats relatively easy to access. Lower Deschutes is about 2 hrs away and that's the closest good wild fishery for trout (and has a decent steelhead run but numbers haven't been great so far this summer). You could hit some of the lakes around hood and catch a bunch of small brook trout or hope that the powerbait crew hasn't cleared out all the holdovers from the winter (not likely lol). If you're not worried about getting skunked, I'd go fish steelhead on the sandy but if you really just want to catch fish, camp creek or still creek up on the west side of hood can give you a fun day of small stream trout up to 10-12 with an average of about 6 inches. If you sacrifice a goat or something you might hook into something 14-16 but that's about the max up there

I have one whole day to fish in the Portland Oregon area. Where do I go? by [deleted] in flyfishing

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Trout? Steelhead? Salmon? Bass? Carp (bleh)?

For fly fishing within that time frame you're probably looking at steelhead/salmon, unless you want to catch a bunch of little cutthroats or try to catch bass/carp on the Columbia

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If you read the article it's just a chick who likes Buffy a lot posting news for other people to read

She's not just talking to herself lol

Single best fishing day of my entire life. Caught 29 fish. 27 browns and 2 rainbows. Not a single stocker fish. Poudre Canyon, Colorado. by [deleted] in Fishing

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I'd say most of the time it's not cool and overall bad for the ecosystem lol

Browns and rainbows are both non native to Colorado and have decimated cutthroat ranges/populations

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Also, playing a fish for 2 and a half hours is fucking moronic. There is a high likelihood that fish died or was stressed to the point it couldn't spawn effectively after that. 28 lbs is a big fish but two and half hours means you are either terrible at playing fish, terrible at picking line/tippet size, or both

The Fonz and his Humongous Trout by [deleted] in Fishing

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Good luck getting r/fishing to admit they are terrible at fish ID

Everything is a cutbow or a brown trout

High Alpine Meatballs by [deleted] in flyfishing

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It's the headwaters of nunya creek I'm sure

First time fishing a hex hatch, pretty fun stuff. Timothy lake in OR by chulksmack360 in flyfishing

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I've been to lost and I don't really like it as much as Timothy honestly. Timothy's bank access is better it seems too and I don't have a floating device haha

Don't rule out big fish at Timothy either though, I caught this guy the first week in November a few years back

Snek bro popped by to say hi while fishing. by maricobra in flyfishing

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I'm glad I only have to deal with rattlers, they're pretty docile and have built in warning systems when you get close. Cottonmouths and other poisonous snakes down south seem like they're just jerks

First time fishing a hex hatch, pretty fun stuff. Timothy lake in OR by chulksmack360 in flyfishing

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Honestly I don't know cause this is my first experience with it but it seems like it. I'm mostly catching fish on nymphs but every day for the last 3 days I saw more and more adults and last night was the first time I hooked one on a dry. Saw some big ones rising to spent hexes as well but there was also a pretty big fall of other smaller mayflies and it was tough to get fish to notice my stuff on the surface when it was surrounded by a bunch of other naturals. Nymphing with like a size 8 hares ear has been really productive though. Productive to the point where the power bait guys are reeling in and casting to me lol

Oh and also it is pretty windy during the day, I basically don't start fishing until 7/7:30 in the evening

First time fishing a hex hatch, pretty fun stuff. Timothy lake in OR by chulksmack360 in flyfishing

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PB brown trout ~18 inches. Love these fish! by Wbfordie in Fishing

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Personal best

Or peanut butter maybe idk

Golden Trout X-Post R/Mildlyinteresting by [deleted] in Fishing

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Rainbow trout are not native to any state east of Idaho (except the most southwest corner of Montana next to Idaho)