Wildlife

Cutthroat trout

Oncorhynchus clarkii
Habitat
Great Falls
Conservation
Imperiled

Named in honor of Clark, but first caught (and enjoyed for dinner) on Lewis’s first trip to the Great Falls in 1805.

Journal References

15 journal entries mention Cutthroat trout

Mar 14 1806
Lewis: March 14, 1806
...y laced uniform coat but he would not exchange. The Salmon Trout are seldom more than two feet in length they are narrow in proportion to their length, at least mu...
Mar 16 1806
Clark: March 16, 1806
...anches proceed, lies deepest in the water. The white Salmon Trout which we had previously seen only at the Great Falls of the Columbia, or a little below the Great ...
Mar 16 1806
Lewis: March 16, 1806
...nder shell. the animal is soft & boneless. The white Salmon Trout which we had previously seen only at the great falls of the Columbia has now made it's appearance ...
Apr 10 1806
Clark: April 10, 1806
...e no provisions from those people except four white Salmon trout. at 10 oClock Sergt. Pryor and Gibson joined us with Collins who had killed 3 deer. these were all...
Apr 10 1806
Lewis: April 10, 1806
...in no provision from those people except four white salmon trout. at ten oclock Sergt. Pryor and Gibson joined us with Collins who had killed 3 deer. these were a...
Apr 17 1806
Lewis: April 17, 1806
... of the rapids at this time take a few of the white salmon trout and considerable quantities of a small indifferent mullet on which they principally subsist. I hav...
Apr 27 1806
Clark: April 27, 1806
...nish them in great abundance. They also take a fiew Salmon trout of the white kind. Yelleppet haranged his village in our favor intreated them to furnish us with f...
Apr 27 1806
Lewis: April 27, 1806
...urnish them in great abundance. they also take a few salmon trout of the white kind.Yellept haranged his village in our favour intreated them to furnish us with fu...
May 8 1806
Clark: May 8, 1806
...l taken off &c. I cought or took off those willows 9 Small trout from 3 to 7 Inches in length. Soon after I returned from the fishery an Indian came from a fishery...
May 8 1806
Lewis: May 8, 1806
... the fish decending the stream Capt. C. took several small trout from this trap. Neesh-ne-park-kee-ook and several other indians joined us this morning. we gave t...
May 10 1806
Lewis: May 10, 1806
... dryed, four cakes of the bread of cows and a dryed salmon trout. We thanked them for this store of provision but informed them that our men not being accustomed ...
May 11 1806
Clark: May 11, 1806
... with those nets they take the Suckers and also the Salmon trout and I am told the Salmon also.
May 22 1806
Clark: May 22, 1806
...ward the mountains. they also brought with them two Salmon trout which they had purchased of Indians which they Saw on their return to Camp. at 5 p. M. two young m...
May 22 1806
Lewis: May 22, 1806
... the mountains. they also brought with them two red salmon trout which they had purchased from some indians whom they had met with on their return to camp.Two Indi...
Jun 19 1806
Clark: June 19, 1806
...ibson killed only one fish which we found to be the Salmon Trout of the dark Species. this fish was of the common Size pore, and indifferently flavoured. Labeesh k...

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