cutthroat trout

noun

1. a spotted trout, Salmo clarkii, of coastal streams of western North America, having a reddish streak on each side of the throat.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cutthroat trout¹

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95

Example Sentences

The Snake River curves around some of the most iconic views of the Tetons, so you’ll be hard-pressed to find a more scenic place to fly-fish for cutthroat trout.

From Outside Online

One 2008 paper reviewed previous studies on hooking mortality and found that, across 50 states and dozens of species, mortalities could be more than 30 percent in red drum, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, and cutthroat trout.

From Popular-Science

Together they caught cutthroat trout in Montana and Atlantic salmon in Canada’s Gaspé Peninsula.

From Washington Post

On the lake a cutthroat trout breaks the surface; pieces of it follow him into the air.

From The Daily Beast

I went fishing, and in the first pool of the river below the upper lake, caught several two- and three-pound cutthroat trout.

From Project Gutenberg

They were cutthroat trout, silvery-sided and marked with the red slash along their gills that gave them their name.

From Project Gutenberg

They all were about the same size, just under two pounds, all native or cutthroat trout.

From Project Gutenberg

In the Belly River proper, rainbow and cutthroat trout and grayling are plentiful.

From Project Gutenberg

Besides them these lakes are full of cutthroat trout, and what the whites call Dolly Varden trout, and whitefish.

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