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[westcoastercoho]

Hello All,

I have been having a fair amount of success this year on the local river catching cutty's, but have came up with a big old goose egg so far for steelhead.

So my question is, do steelhead hold in the same types of spots as cutty's do?  I am doing something right fishing wise, but perhaps not steelhead wise?

Thanks and info appreciated!

[sbc hris]

In my experience you'll often catch them in the same spots. Just aren't many steelies around this year

[Madmardigan]

Same area,for sure.If you see cutties in the tailout or fringe and not all over,its because there is a steelie or two in the deep.

[Ian Forbes]

Same area,for sure.If you see cutties in the tailout or fringe and not all over,its because there is a steelie or two in the deep.

That is probably the case. Steelhead won't hang out with cutthroat, but cutthroat will hang around spawning steelhead. As a general rule, rainbows and cutthroat don't buddy up. They are natural adversaries. In cases where they've cross bred it usually a situation where one or the other is from hatchery stock.

[BCfisherman97]

Often observe cutties in behind summers. Even saw a rather large pod of cuts behind a pair of steelhead not too long ago.

[RalphH]

cutthroat prefer slower water than rainbow. Smaller fish often won't hang too close to large fish for obvious reasons but they don't have to be too far apart even a few yards is enough in most cases. Most of the steelhead streams I fish don't have too many cutthroat particularly in winter. In spring cutts will move into the lower sections of streams.