Colorado Cutthroat Trout. Colorado is home to three species of native cutthroat trout. Although the three fish pictured above are all cutthroat trout they are remarkably different.
Some of the better known species include the bonneville lahontan rio grande colorado river snake river greenback and yellowstone to name a few. There are more species of cuts in colorado and the west than pictured above but these are the subspecies we most commonly catch on the front range. Workers on foot or on horseback and sometimes by helicopter stock the streams.
As trout get ready to spawn their colors tend to get brighter.
Although the three fish pictured above are all cutthroat trout they are remarkably different. Although the three fish pictured above are all cutthroat trout they are remarkably different. The greenback cutthroat in the south platte river basin. As trout get ready to spawn their colors tend to get brighter.
