Vincent,
No, you won't find any sea-run cutthroat in the North Fork with clipped
adipose fins, they are all wild, native fish. Just offhand, I would say the
salmon in the photo is a coho.
Preston
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vincent Pons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: Stilly Fish Identification/salmon identification, Sol Duc
>
> Ok, thanks for the info. When I started fishing in your state, my guess
was a
> big trout is a steelhead and everyting that is smaller than 25" is a
rainbow or
> a cutthroat. I didn't know anything about steelhead, cutthroat, dolly
> varden..... Now, I've caught several of theses fish, I've caught some big
ones
> that were steelies for sure but for the smaller fish, I wasn't sure so I
asked
> you. I learnt something important, even if a fish doesn't have red slash,
it
> can be a SRC, that makes the identification harder, I'm not in luck.
> Another question, are there any SRC on the N Fork without adipose fin?
I'll
> show you latter a bad photo of one fish that didn't have an adipose fin,
it was
> a 20" fish.
> About salmon, can you tell me from what species is this one?
> http://students.washington.edu/vpons/page2.html
> thanks for your help,
> Vincent
>
> Scott Craig wrote:
>
> > Yes, the top fish is a Dolly Varden/bull trout (native char) and the
> > bottom has the spotting pattern of a S.R. Cutthroat. It's hard to see
if
> > the lower maxilary of the mouth extends past the rear orbit of the eye,
> > indicative of a cutthroat. It could be a rainbow/cutthroat hybrid? Not
> > all S.R. Cutthroat have the characteristic red slash.
> >
> > I have only caught one resident type rainbow on the NF Stilly (12 inch).
> > During my snorkel, I did not see any.
> >
> > Keith, sounds like you caught all the fish I observed except whitefish.
> > All of the whitefish were ganged up in one glide below Hazel.
> >
> > Scott Craig
>
