Oregon Coastal Cutthroat

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Oregon coastal streams open to trout fishing in late May each year. These streams are teaming with resident Coastal Cutthroat Trout and numbers increase as anadromous searun Cutthroat enter these systems starting in summer. I fished the Little Nestucca in late May in search of some resident Cutties on my ultralite rod setup.
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[@returnofsid]

Small river fishing is so much fun! Great video!

[@cykratzer3463]

One of my favorite things about coastal cutthroat fishing, is they are laying in the same holes and slots that the steelhead will sit in when they come up stream. I was catching cutthroat on the alsea one early autumn day, when my buddy hooked and landed a beautiful native steelhead. One of my favorite fishing memories

[@gabewr9]

I love what you said, "You can't hear anything...Just focus on the stream."

[@sipius22]

Used to set up a tent along a small brook and spend a couple of days catching brookies. Would use a very small bladed lure with treble and bring it over a boulder. As the lure dropped in front of the boulder that's when the fish would hit. Great Memories. Thank You for video!

[@montanaoutdoors6217]

You ever hit these small streams with a 3 weight fly rod? That's how I fish creeks in western montana...it's hard to beat and fun to watch em taking the dry fly

[@spiltmilt]

I prefer tenkara for small streams

[@BC-ue3ku]

That’s a lot of fun tromping through the woods working from hole to hole 👍

[@macsmith2092]

That's fun. Love creek fishing.

[@chinook301]

Little Cleo bronze are my favorite

[@milehighfishing4446]

Sweet, always a pleasure to stop by and watch a few videos. 😄 thanks for the fire content. 👍 Cheers!

[@SG-ig2th]

Mepps Aglia, panther martin,and rooster tail spinners. MONEY all day in those streams.

[@spiltmilt]

They seem to hit pretty much anything. LOL

[@guaporeturns9472]

Used to catch sea run Cutts on the Alsea and Siuslaw back in the day.. called then Bluebacks

[@Justin-zs1ql]

Small stream fishing will always be special to me. I was introduced to the outdoors fishing small PA streams for stockers. It’s also why I love chasing steelhead on these small coastal streams. The sounds are so relaxing and peaceful. Just hard to beat.

[@Rodsnriflesoutdoors]

Awesome video try this month bet you'll find searun now first run just come up my local creek (lower stretch)

[@chubbrock659]

When you make it to strawberry reservoir in Utah, you’ll find that you’ll have to wade through the cutthroats to get to the Kokanee. Strawberry is famous for its large cuttys which average between 18- 25 inches easily. They are aggressive and plentiful.

[@AKPakrat]

This video brought back so many old memories!! As a kid I spent countless hours fishing for cutts along the Willamette tributaries around Corvallis and all over the upper coastal tribs. Thank you!!

[@lucasjamesellingson-cosenz3924]

Im currently in Corvallis as OSU student, and desperate to catch some cutties. I know of Marys, Lukiamute, Santiam, and Willamette, and have gone to Mckenzie at Eugene, but yet to catch any cutties and wanna finds some good spots haha

[@AKPakrat]

@@lucasjamesellingson-cosenz3924 There is Star creek, Beaver Creek and others south of Philomath, but you have to secure permission to trespass on private land. These are very small populations that can handle very little harvest, so I always practice very careful catch and release

[@lucasjamesellingson-cosenz3924]

@@AKPakrat thanks for the recommendations. Yeah looking at google maps, a lot of those small creeks look like they cross through peoples properties. Sometimes they look like they cross through or pass by public roads, so definitely warrants investigating and could be real fun. Caught a cutty at santiam in lebanon today, and intend on trying marys and lukiamute up above wren later.

[@JigginwithG]

Love the coastal cuttys! I have a river in my back yard they are fun 🐟🎣🔥

[@johnspecht7449]

Pretty water. I have fished the Little Nestucca a few times for Cutthroat and had a lot of fun.

[@alexwilson1913]

Great video. The small river and creek fishing is so much fun for many reasons. Offers a great break and escape from other types of fishing. I would be beside myself if I caught an SRC the size of the one you showed in the picture. My biggest from the rivers so far has been about 15”.

[@alfontana6242]

Here in Northwest Oregon we catch quite a few sea run cutties when fishing for summer run steelhead. Some of those cutties are rod benders and at first you believe its a small summer run steelhead and it turn out to be a 18 inch cuttie. My wife and I release most of those cutties unless they are hooked badly and would not survive if released which is only very few.

[@coyakbrian3411]

No yak, hoochie's or down riggers and I still enjoyed it 😉 Thanks for sharing!

[@ShenpaiWasTaken]

Love the variety of videos recently! Glad you are able to get out so much to fish!

[@adamsnyder9347]

We use the same combos for bass and trout, you must shop at Bi-Mart? lol. For the price, I don’t mind having to replace a few of the guides every so-often on those UL Cilello rods. Really hard to beat those President reels.

[@out4rvnge930]

Still odd to me not seeing you in a kayak.

[@spiltmilt]

I have a lot of non kayak content

[@out4rvnge930]

@@spiltmilt more with Lol

[@matthewlabunsky9554]

You’re videos are always high quality and fun! This is one of my favorite fisheries! Seems like the big searun cutthroat come in mostly in end of June and July on the north coast .

[@Nik-gh6gz]

Loving your videos recently dude! I really want to catch some costal cutthroat, and I was planning to drive up to Puget sound to fly fish for em. Their not big but catching trout in saltwater would be super cool!

[@pnw_element9822]

Where was this at I wanna do some creek fishing

[@returnofsid]

The Okuma rod you're using, do you think it would make a good Kokanee jigging rod, especially in the 4' length?

[@spiltmilt]

No. I prefer long med-light action rods for jigging.

[@returnofsid]

@@spiltmilt I guess I was thinking, night jigging from a boat, it seems easier with a shorter tod.

[@JacobPope]

Hey Tyler, another great video! At the start of the video you say a Ryuki 35, but you linked a 38 in the description. Just confirming it was the 38? Thanks for the great content!

[@spiltmilt]

Its a Ryuki 35 thanks for catching that. Although the 38 is going to only be a tiny bit bigger

[@stewartmainville303]

Ah...that IS the real world. 😉

[@scottbeauchamp5488]

Here in my region of B.C. we are only allowed one single barbless hook. I’d like to use rapalas but am unsure of which of the 2 spots to put my hook. The back seems obvious but do they not tend to take the rapala head first most times? Wondering about your thoughts on that.

[@spiltmilt]

Hmmm....I do tend to catch more on the front hook as well.

[@andrewbeach1685]

How do you keep from hanging up on the rocks?

[@spiltmilt]

Rarely hang up when swinging spoons and spinners with single point hooks