To my knowledge Brookies and Cutts don't hybridize. This looks like a textbook Colorado Cutthroat from what I saw when I used to live there. Head is a little odd but nothing that would make me suspect hybridization, probably just individual variation or an older male fish perhaps
I don't think that brookies and cutts can hybridize. It's an interesting question, but I think that the western trouts are just too different from brookies and other chars taxonomically for that to work. But I'm not exactly an expert, and if you really want to be sure you might want to contact a state biologist.
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TonyS
Fri, 04/06/2018 - 15:41
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Cutthroat
To my knowledge Brookies and Cutts don't hybridize. This looks like a textbook Colorado Cutthroat from what I saw when I used to live there. Head is a little odd but nothing that would make me suspect hybridization, probably just individual variation or an older male fish perhaps
SomewhereDownstream
Fri, 04/06/2018 - 22:32
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Nice cutt
I don't think that brookies and cutts can hybridize. It's an interesting question, but I think that the western trouts are just too different from brookies and other chars taxonomically for that to work. But I'm not exactly an expert, and if you really want to be sure you might want to contact a state biologist.
Looks like a pretty awesome cutthroat, though.
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andy
Fri, 04/06/2018 - 23:01
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I think that's just an
I think that's just an absolutely gorgeous cutt. Never read anything about cutthroat and brook trout hybridizing. Sweet fish!
Corey
Sun, 04/08/2018 - 00:41
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Cutthroat
It's just a cutthroat male with lots of hormones.
johnny
Thu, 04/19/2018 - 12:08
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Classic case of cutty-brook-bow
Classic case of cutty-brook-bow. More rare than the cutty-rain-brown
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