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CUTTHROAT TROUT
Image by Fool-On-The-Hill
This is a Bear lake Cutthroat Trout I caught in the Strawberry Valley. They are unique in sometimes having a blueish turquoise back. The Bear Lake Cutthroat is a Large, piscivorous from of the Bonneville Cutthroat Trout(officially), which can get up to at least 25 pounds. Bear lake is rather alkaline, and so the trout loose most of their spots, and gain a silvery color with a blueish back. Strawberry reservoir is a very different body of water, much higher in elevation and not as alkaline, so the trout here are a little different, but at least some of them can be "normal" Bear Lake Cutthroat. Actually the Bear river form of the Bonneville Cutthroat, which the Bear Lake are an ecotype of, are very closely related to Yellowstone Cutthroats, since the Bear river used to flow into the Snake river up until about 15,000 years, when it was diverety by a lava flow into ancient lake Bonneville. In fact the Trout of the Bear river are more closely related to Yellowstone Cutthroats than they are to other Bonneville Cutthroats from the Bonneville basin. So in a way, these are an ecotype of the Yellowstone Cutthroat trout.
