White Tipped Fins

[Outside Bend]

It's a Rain-brown.

(totally joking.. I just think rain-brown is funny....after I heard someone say it on the stream)

Out west I had a guy tell me he had been catching cutt-browns, which I thought was pretty amusing. But apparently Utah developed a brown-rainbow cross in the 90's to try and offset the effects of whirling disease on their fisheries. Crazy stuff.

[Phil Lilley]

It's pretty amazing the varieties of rainbows you'll see on Taneycomo. Some have the white tipped fins... I'm not sure if they're from a particular hatchery or not but they are some of the prettiest trout you'll see anywhere. I don't think you can say one is naturally born in the lake and one is from the hatchery though. There are thousands of rainbows who come out of the hatchery that have all their fins.

Clipping- they have clipped brown trout fins to identify their age. They don't grow back.

Strain - I'll give way to Wayne. I have no knowledge of strains except what I've read. But I can ask to double check.

[Wayne SW/MO]

I caught this little guy in a small, New Mexico mountain lake. I know they stock 'bows there. Notice the orange on the jaw. I always though it was a cut or a cut-bow, but didn't look like any others I caught in Colorado.

Wayne - do you think it's a Redband?

That is another trait of the Redband. It is speculated that they are a cross between the inland rainbows and the coastal cutts. They are a popular fish to stock because some strains have a high tolerence for warmer water.

[Brian K. Shaffer]

Many fish cannot cross breed... as in browns and rainbows. * It is impossible *

I was fishing with ruthead (Don) and is family Tuesday and Wednesday... I think we caught only a couple of fish with really good white tipped fins. Side note, one juvenile brown that was caught was fin clipped... right side clipped. Linda caught that one I think.

Our Taneycomo trout ... from what I have learned so far, have only been been cross bred with the McCloud strain. I do know that MDC tried to get other fish introduced (i.e. bred) with other strains... to no avail.

So why the intense cutt-bow trout qualities ? Lots of fish (after feeding on a good diet of scuds) really do have the slash markings of a true cutt-bow or just complete cutthroat trout from Yellowstone ?

[Wayne SW/MO]

I can't speak for SOH hatchery, but most hatceries continue to bring in new fish.

[laker67]

I have heard that the cutt=bow look comes from the arlee strain.

[Mr. Ed]

I have seen some pretty wild things, but never a wild trout.

I caught a few in CO including a 6" native Greenback Cutthroat. Prettiest fish I've ever seen.

[Wayne SW/MO]

I caught a few in CO including a 6" native Greenback Cutthroat. Prettiest fish I've ever seen.

For color it's hard to beat a Redband from the McKenzie or Deschutes river in OR. They're wild and the rose stripe on the side can be close to 2" wide on some.

[laker67]

For color it's hard to beat a Redband from the McKenzie or Deschutes river in OR. They're wild and the rose stripe on the side can be close to 2" wide on some.

Howdy Wayne. Back in the 80's I caught a 6lber at montauk that matched the description of a redband. And when we asked about it, we were told that they were experimenting with a few for possible future stockings. A beautiful fish with that huge red band like you describe. I am not sure what the outcome of that experiment was.

[Greasy B]

Howdy Wayne. Back in the 80's I caught a 6lber at montauk that matched the description of a redband. And when we asked about it, we were told that they were experimenting with a few for possible future stockings. A beautiful fish with that huge red band like you describe. I am not sure what the outcome of that experiment was.

I think it was determined that the Redband's just didn't improve the fishing because the tended to migrate out of the trout waters into waters where they couldn't survive the summer heat.