How to Use cutthroat trout in a Sentence

cutthroat trout

noun
  • The rainbow, brook and tiger trout are sent out first -- later in the season, cutthroat trout join the mix.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 13 July 2021
  • The site is home to steelhead and cutthroat trout, blue herons, ducks, owls, coyotes, deer, turtles and beavers.
    — Gwozniac, oregonlive, 30 July 2023
  • Jack switched to a double dry-fly rig, his go-to for cutthroat trout as a summer guide in Montana.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 27 May 2020
  • Its waters teemed with June suckers, cutthroat trout and other native fish species.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The 300-acre lake is an angler's playground filled with rainbow, brook, brown and cutthroat trout.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2023
  • One of those, the Lahontan cutthroat trout, is listed as threatened.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2021
  • In California, lakes with kokanee salmon (or cutthroat trout) that spawn in feeder creeks will draw in the bears.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 19 Oct. 2019
  • That’s roughly 40 rainbow, brown, or cutthroat trout per angler on a boat floating a dozen miles of river.
    — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Liberated from its pipe, the creek gurgled clear through the rubble, and a cutthroat trout flickered over the gravel.
    — Ben Goldfarb, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The greenback cutthroat trout, Colorado’s state fish, was declared extinct over 50 years ago.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Most popular rivers now allow little if any rainbow, brown, or cutthroat trout possession.
    — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Yellowstone cutthroat trout are on the brink of extinction as invasive lake trout continue to eat them.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Families come back every summer to play life-size checkers and chess, construct birdhouses, and fish in the lakes for cutthroat trout.
    — Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 May 2024
  • His agency will soon poison non-native fish in an effort to re-establish the Paiute cutthroat trout to its historic range.
    — Virginia Gewin, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2013
  • Now Vermejo is home to the largest population of Rio Grande cutthroat trout in the world.
    — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Other species, like the cutthroat trout, are released to prey on other fish whose populations may grow too large, throwing their ecosystems out of whack.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 13 July 2021
  • Luna Lake shelters a healthy population of rainbow and cutthroat trout.
    — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 17 June 2019
  • The streams that flow into Mendenhall Lake, 13 miles from Juneau, are home to sockeye salmon and cutthroat trout.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Later still, fishing for Westslope cutthroat trout heats up; some visitors also hunt chukar partridge along the shore.
    — Christopher Solomon, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2022
  • The new drilling plan pulls water from a different stream officials say doesn’t contain Yellowstone cutthroat trout.
    — Keith Ridler, ajc, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Troll for native cutthroat trout and invasive lake trout on the picturesque expanse of Yellowstone Lake.
    — Alex Pulaski, Washington Post, 2 July 2020
  • Guide service and catch cui-ui or Lahontan cutthroat trout, all while learning about Numu history.
    — Outside Online, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Native trout are the ones that have been here for thousands of years, such as brook trout in the mountains of the Northeast and cutthroat trout throughout the Rockies.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Turner’s land stewardship has also helped restore habitat for other rare and endangered species, from the cutthroat trout to the black-footed ferret.
    — Drew Kann, AJC.com, 7 May 2026
  • The region is home to brown, rainbow and brook trout, while June Lake also holds the coveted and rare Lahontan cutthroat trout.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2021
  • There’s no daily limit (catch or possession) for non-native fish, which include rainbow trout, Yellowstone cutthroat trout, and brook trout.
    — Katie Jackson, Outside Online, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Our target species was the native westslope cutthroat trout—not a particularly large fish as trout go, but absolutely wild and beautiful.
    — Will Rice, Outside, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Camp and ski in the backcountry, or bring your rods—more than 20 lakes in the immediate vicinity provide excellent lake fishing for cutthroat trout.
    — Alison Van Houten, Outside Online, 6 June 2019
  • Soda Butte Creek is a stronghold for the iconic Yellowstone cutthroat trout, but it’s been threatened by invasive brook trout for years.
    — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 24 Aug. 2023
  • That’s good news for Yellowstone cutthroat trout, which suffered a major decline after the detection of the nonnative lake trout 25 years ago.
    — USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2019

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