Whitesitt, of Post Falls, landed a new catch-and-release state record for Westslope cutthroat trout while fishing the Clark Fork River in northern Idaho.

Daniel Whitesitt hoists a trophy Westslope Cutthroat Trout from the Clark Fork River. The 25-inch trout set a new "catch-and-release" state record. Photo: Idaho Fish and Game ...

The students observed the streamside surgery and fretted a bit about the patient — an anesthetized westslope cutthroat trout. Tracy Elam, a state fisheries technician, wielded a scalpel to ...

HELENA — Conservation groups have given notice they intend to sue in two months to get the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reconsider its decision not to list the westslope cutthroat trout as ...

Whitesitt submitted documentation of his released catch to the Idaho Fish and Game, and the agency verified it has a catch-and-release state record for Westslope cutthroat trout, the IFG reported ...

Prior to 1903, cutthroat trout were stocked by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries in numerous Washington streams as early as 1895. Many of the fish planted were the Yellowstone “black spotted” trout.

Westslope Cutthroat The Westslope cutthroat is the state fish of Montana and can also be found in Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia.

Congratulations to Daniel Whitesitt of Post Falls, Idaho, on landing a new Catch-and-Release state record for Westslope Cutthroat Trout.

In Northwest Montana, the native species is called a westslope cutthroat trout. These trout are unique, especially to the Flathead Basin.

The Dutchman Creek project proposed by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks would be the latest effort in a sustained campaign to save pure-strain westslope cutthroat trout in the Elkhorn Mountains.

Native westslope cutthroat trout (a state listed species of concern) in the St. Mary River drainage on the east side of Glacier National Park are at risk from hybridization with non-native fish ...