Ken Fortenberry wrote:

Bob Weinberger wrote:

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The resident fish in these streams are cutthroat, though
some of the cuttthroat also exhibit a degree of anadromy - going to
the near
shore salt for periods of 3-6mos. and returning as Searun Cutts of
13-18".
Inch for inch they are better fighters than steelhead.


That's interesting. I've found on inland waters that rainbows fight
and jump very well, cutts do neither and cutbows are, as you'd expect,
kinda half-assed. Any chance that your searun cutts are cutbows ?


Something else that's related and is interesting to me is that there are
some places where cutts and rainbow population coexist with little or no
interbreeding. While in many streams and rivers, the introduction of the
rainbows led to the elimination of the cutts mainly through interbreeding.

Willi