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#1 ·
HiGuys,

Last Sunday I got this cut (about 26 river miles) while searching for steelhead.I've never gotten one this far up river before and was wondering how far others have found them up river before. Notice its injury behind its left cheek. It definetely had a narrow escape from some predator.





 
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One thing you can look for when the fish is in hand is basibranchial teeth. Cutts got 'em; Bows don't.

"The cutthroat is distinguished from other trouts by a variety of characteristics. The maxillary of the cutthroat usually extends beyond the posterior margin of the eye in fish longer than 4 inches. In addition, this species has basibranchial or hyoid teeth behind the tongue between the second gill clefts."

from: https://www.collegeofidaho.edu/oncorhynchus-clarkii-richardson-1836-cutthroat-trout-0
 
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