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[lucky]

Mary and I decided to wet a line at Buntzen today, we had been out there two weeks ago and had some success so I was optimistic about today.

We arrived at the lake around 9, there were lots of people out for a hike but not alot of boats out on the water. As soon as we had both rods in the water we were into a double header, a small cutthroat and a small rainbow. It seems we had arrived at the right time as the bite was on, the lake was calm and there was a fair amount of fish sipping bugs from the surface.

More people slowly started coming in every type of watercraft imaginable, most enjoyed some good fishing as it seems everyone we saw was into fish at one time or another. But shortly after lunch the wind picked up and the bite seemed to shut off, so we packed it in and headed for home.

All in all a pretty decent day at the local lake, with 12 fish making it to the boat and plenty of others lost due to headshakes and runs at the boat.

The hot fly of the day seemed to be the maroon carey special.

heres a rainbow from the recent stocking


a lanky rainbow from a previous years stocking


and a couple of cutties

[Piranha]

how can you tell that the bottom two are cutties? those look like rainbows to me. lol

[lucky]

sometimes I have trouble telling the difference, but from my understanding cutthroat have more spots, and they go lower onto the body and onto the fins, as well sometimes they may have a red or yellowish hue around the gill area.

[Rodney]

The last two are definitely rainbow trout. The pink colour along the lateral line is a good characteristic used to identify a rainbow trout. For cutthroat trout, the orange slash on the bottom portion of the gill plate is a good way to identifying them. Even though the last two fish are already quite spotted, cutthroat trout are even more spotted. The spots tend to be closer to each other.

[lucky]

thanks for the clarification Rod, we assumed they were cutthroat because the spots ran well below the lateral line and onto the fins. There sure is a big variation in the marking on those fish, Im wondering if some are a natural strain of rainbows?

here are a couple more pics, the first is a recent hatchery rainbow, the second is a fish the same size with twice as many spots.