Lahontan Cutthroat Trip!

[C LeBo 0]

One of the the members from this site who is a fellow Californian gave me the location of a creek that still held Lahontan Cutthroats, which is super rare for West of the Sierras. It was a small but very pretty creek, I caught nine total, but none reached more than 6 inches long at most. The CDC/Antron midge in the picture is a size 24 and accounted for 4 of the fish caught.

 

Enjoy!

 

 

Thank You and Tight Lines,

Carson LeBoeuf

[Big Mike64 0]

Such pretty fish!

[switch10 0]

Very cool!

 

Here's a Lahontan from the eastern side of the Sierra's where they are not so rare....

 

 

I really enjoy hiking around and finding fish that probably have never even seen a fly. When it's a rare species, it's even more fun! I plan on finding a few Piute cutthroats this summer, which is pretty exciting. Apparently they only live in a 9 mile section of a very small creek above a waterfall where other species could not reach them to breed them out.

 

 

[C LeBo 0]

Wow Piute! Jeff Courier came to a club that I'm a part of and gave a presentation on the 11 native trout of California and really emphasized those. The story is that they didnt used to exist above that waterfall you mentioned until some shepherds had enough forethought to plant them up there, before all the others below it got wiped out by invasive species, but now all fishing upstream from the waterfall is banned, though I've heard stories of a good snow melt washing them over the waterfall where its legal to catch them.

[C LeBo 0]

Thank You so much, Cencalfly, especially seeing I have all those trout to thank you for!

[Piker20 0]

Lovely fish and in that small tight water I reckon they are just as rewarding as a lunker on a big water.