Little Dell

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I think the best fighting and the most fun hybrid fish to catch is a cuttbow!  but not at the expence of losing the purity of the cutt! There is a lot of biology that goes into fisherys managment I wish people would understand.

About a month or so ago I caught a fish at Little Dell that I thought could be a Cutbow. After speaking with a DNR biologist he asked that I email him the pics I had of some of the Rainbows that I caught in there. Much to my surprise, he got back to me this week (really wasn't expecting a response). He had the fisheries managers review the pics... confirmed the Rainbows, couldn't confirm the Cutbow but did agree that it did not look like the typical Bonneville Cutt's at Little Dell.

On the Rainbows, they said this...

DNR introduced rainbows in there when we built the dam, but then found out the pure strain of the Bonneville Cuts and had to drain the reservoir to get the rainbows out, obviously they didn't get them all. The biologists still find them in the creek when they electrofish every year.  This is only the second report I have heard of someone catching rainbows but we know they are in there.

Mystery solved.

Here's the possible Cutbow that I sent to them. Pictures didn't quite capture the golden hue of this fish.

Good info - thanks for sharing. I’ve also caught a few cuttbow suspects. I’ve also heard about brook trout being caught there although I personally haven’t seen any photos to verify. I wonder if the DNR has electro shocked any brookies?