Fish Sticks
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Same fish from an angle you can’t see the underside.
redietz
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I guess there's a cutty somewhere in his family tree.
Fish Sticks
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Yea the two have been historically hybridized so much that only Jimmy Hoffa, Gina Haspel, Kaiser Soze and the Kookaid man know whats in that DNA. But yea see like someone is stocking 1 parts cutt 9 parts Bow in the yeller breeches.
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Last year, or maybe the year before I caught several like that in Lehigh County in stocked streams. I'm sure they were state stocked fish. Like was mentioned above, they must somehow have some cutt DNA in them.
Acristickid
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Fish Sticks
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Interesting, mcCloud river for what I have read in the book “An entirely synthetic fish” is the primordial ooz of rainbow trout bucket biology as far as spreading them east of their native range. It was federally funded at the time if I remember correctly they obviously had no idea of the repercussions.
Great book. Eye opening in the sense that it makes you appreciate that when you catch one of those stocked rainbow trout your holding something so far removed from natural selection, evolution, the ecosystem where it was found.
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Tom1980
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You will occasionally see the same feature on Big Spring Rainbows but far more pronounced.
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In the Yellowstone River canyon in the Park, we caught many hybrid "cutt-bows."
Fish Sticks
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Same their all over there, we can now add small mouth bass to that I believe.
Fish Sticks
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Never flipped them upside down. Will have to.
hooker-of-men
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+1 for great book. I read it in June and every fishing book I've picked up since has been a bit of a bummer in comparison.
Fish Sticks
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If guys like the author and following fisheries science he is one of the hosts of this awesome podcast
Dave_W
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Over the years we've had several of these threads in which an angler gets a rainbow in PA with the faint red chin marks and wonders whether they have a cut-bow.
These red chin stripes are common on rainbows in PA.
Also, when his book came out Halverson briefly joined our forum and contributed some posts discussing his book (which is excellent, as noted).
These red chin stripes are common on rainbows in PA.
Also, when his book came out Halverson briefly joined our forum and contributed some posts discussing his book (which is excellent, as noted).
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I've caught several in breeches myself. I've been informed by a reputable guide on the breeches that they are not uncommon. Pretty cool though.
Fish Sticks
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If liked Halverson’s book you’ll love this equally interesting book.
Douglas M. Thompson
UPNE, Sep 22, 2013 - Nature - 324 pages
The angler's dream of fishing pristine waters in unspoiled country for sleek, healthy trout has turned fishing into a form of theater. It is a manufactured experienceÑmuch to the detriment of our rivers and streams. AmericansÕ love of trout has reached a level of fervor that borders on the religious. Federal and state agencies, as well as nongovernmental lobbying groups, invest billions of dollars on river restoration projects and fish-stocking programs. Yet, their decisions are based on faulty logic and risk destroying species they are tasked with protecting. River ecosystems are modified with engineered structures to improve fishing, native species that compete with trout are eradicated, and nonnative invasive game fish are indiscriminately introduced, genetically modified, and selectively bred to produce more appealing targets for anglersÑincluding the freakishly contrived "golden trout."
Douglas M. Thompson
UPNE, Sep 22, 2013 - Nature - 324 pages
The angler's dream of fishing pristine waters in unspoiled country for sleek, healthy trout has turned fishing into a form of theater. It is a manufactured experienceÑmuch to the detriment of our rivers and streams. AmericansÕ love of trout has reached a level of fervor that borders on the religious. Federal and state agencies, as well as nongovernmental lobbying groups, invest billions of dollars on river restoration projects and fish-stocking programs. Yet, their decisions are based on faulty logic and risk destroying species they are tasked with protecting. River ecosystems are modified with engineered structures to improve fishing, native species that compete with trout are eradicated, and nonnative invasive game fish are indiscriminately introduced, genetically modified, and selectively bred to produce more appealing targets for anglersÑincluding the freakishly contrived "golden trout."
hooker-of-men
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Put in a library request for that one, Fish Sticks! Thanks!
I'm currently going back and forth between a book of Ian Frazier essays - some great, others less so - and Mark Kurlansky's The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing - which is unfortunately complete garbage for a marquee/front window book at a number of independent book sellers. I'm eager to move on to something good.
I'm currently going back and forth between a book of Ian Frazier essays - some great, others less so - and Mark Kurlansky's The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing - which is unfortunately complete garbage for a marquee/front window book at a number of independent book sellers. I'm eager to move on to something good.
Fish Sticks
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Id really like someone to write something on night fishing. Jim bashlines book is amazing but id love more books even if its just stories,accounts, and individual experiences. I just love reading about it and wish there was more out there on it. Feel like night fishing has had some quantum leaps in techniques and flies since that book was written and would be cool if a comprehensive collaborative book from east coast, midwest, and west coast night fishers was done with flies, techniques, conditions, tackle, species, and water types.
hooker-of-men
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I think I've read some Gierach shorts about bassin' at night? That's about all I've got, and it's way far on the anecdotal side of the spectrum.
Though, I will say that Gierach's writing on warm water has been way more rewarding for me in terms of technique than anything he has written about trout. A passage about imagining bass prey falling into the water, thrashing quick, then going limp to assess its situation (and thus drawing a strike) has vividly stuck with me and delivered many fish.
Wrong thread for this, though. Sorry for digression.
Though, I will say that Gierach's writing on warm water has been way more rewarding for me in terms of technique than anything he has written about trout. A passage about imagining bass prey falling into the water, thrashing quick, then going limp to assess its situation (and thus drawing a strike) has vividly stuck with me and delivered many fish.
Wrong thread for this, though. Sorry for digression.
Fish Sticks
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Night fishing smallmouth in streams is virtually non existent in the angling literature. Something available near me and slowly figuring out
