Cutthroat

Fishing for Desert Natives – Preface

July 6, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Background to Dan and Scott’s Desert Natives Fishing Trip along the northern edge of the Great Basin. Wherein you learn a little about the Great Basin and the main target of the trip.

Fishing for Desert Natives – Itinerary

June 27, 2009 ⋅ 10 comments

Fishing for native trout in the deserts of Idaho, Oregon, Nevada and Utah. Cutthroats: Lahontan, Yellowstone and Alvords as well as redband trout and bull trout are the target species. Here’s the itinerary.

Bonneville Cutthroat Spawning Runs Being Restored

June 23, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

Working hard to restore important Bonneville cutthroat spawning runs at Bear Lake.

Micro-Creek Fishing

May 30, 2009 ⋅ 12 comments

Fishing small, out of the way tributaries, for native cutthroat trout.

Paiute Cutthroat – Get Involved!

April 27, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

The Paiute cutthroat trout is limited to 10.5 miles of it’s native range. Let’s help protect its habitat.

Book Reviews

November 18, 2008 ⋅ 6 comments

I’m a bit behind, so here are four book reviews: Cutthroat: Native Trout of the West (nonfiction) Travers Corners (fiction) The Run to Gitche Gumee (fiction) Killing trout and Other Love Poems (poetry)

Exterminating Cutthroat – Part 3

November 15, 2008 ⋅ 5 comments

Part 3 of more than 3. Part 2 is found here and should be read before part 3. Another take on the utilitarian/anthropocentric view is that all life depends upon each other in a great “web of life,” and the extinction of any one species affects every other species in one way or another, including [...]

Exterminating Cutthroat – Part 2

November 6, 2008 ⋅ 18 comments

Part 2 of more than 3. Part 1 is found here. It’s not mandatory to read, but it might give a little background. This is going to be “Talk Me Down” time. I plan on presenting different reasons why we should allow the extinction of cutthroat. I want you to talk me down (or agree, [...]

Last Foray?

November 3, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

Our last foray into Idaho this year? Quite possibly. It didn’t start too well. I swung by Dan’s house as I was heading home. He was putting siding on his shed and I honked. He swung toward me and grazed a finger across the chip board (wafer board), thereby skewering the middle knuckle of his [...]

Exterminating Cutthroat – Sneak Peak – The Tease

October 30, 2008 ⋅ 11 comments

Part 1 of a (probably) 3 part post. This is “The Tease” (hopefully something to get the blood boiling flowing). Who needs them? Cutthroat, that is. Specifically, Bonneville cutthroat—Oncorhynchus clarki utah. Who needs another subspecies of a fairly healthy species of trout? Really, I truly mean that. Are they needed on planet earth? How about [...]

The “About Cutthroat Trout” page

October 12, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Informational item: I have created a small page titled, “About Cutthroat Trout” that has a little bit of information on… [cue drum roll]…, yes, you guessed it, cutthroat trout. There are some pictures too. That is a page, not a post, so you can’t leave comments there. But feel free to leave comments here, if [...]

Tagged Fish – They Aren’t Playing Hide and Seek

October 8, 2008 ⋅ 9 comments

During my fishing two weeks ago I caught a tagged fish. Out of curiosity I emailed the director of the National Aquatic Monitoring Center (he lives and works in my hometown) to see if he knew what the tag was about. He sent my email on to Gary Thiede, a fishery biologist at our local [...]

The Basin – A Picture Report

October 3, 2008 ⋅ 15 comments

Fishing The Basin. I snapped over 150 pictures. I had my Olympus E-510 with me (first time I took it fishing). I hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them (and fishing). Plenty of fish were caught. All cutts. Nothing under 8" and nothing over 13". Click below to check out [...]

Blackfoot River and Beyond

August 3, 2008 ⋅ 9 comments

We have returned from our little fishing foray (and I survived the motorcycle expedition – more on that in the next post). If you read the route and map from the last post, you would know that we planned on fishing in Idaho on the upper Blackfoot River and some areas around it on day [...]

Cutts or Browns: Conservation and the Better Sport Fish

June 17, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

I tried writing this post last night, but it didn’t really jell for me until I got an email from Shane over at The Quiet Pool. Yesterday morning I fired up the motorcycle (I love this non-rainy weather!) about 8:00 AM and headed out. Generally I haven’t had a lot of success fishing the Blacksmith [...]