Cutthroat Trout Replicas
Picking your favorite fish replica is kind of like picking your favorite child – they all have different pros and cons. Of the eight mounts we have, my cutthroat is the smallest, but it provides a disproportionate amount of joy. I caught it on our 10th anniversary trip to Triple Creek Ranch in Montana in 2015.
Hanna hadn’t fly fished at all before that trip and I’d barely done any. We booked a trip with guide Steve Grant of Fly Fishing Always on the Bitterroot River. Before we’d even put the raft on the trailer at the end of the day, we decided to ask Steve if I had anymore openings that week. Luckily he did, because I caught the gorgeous cutthroat on a dry fly on our second trip. It now hangs in our living room.
I highly recommend any trip you can take to Montana, and I also highly recommend Advanced Taxidermy (they’ve done six of our eight replicas). Here are more cutthroats they’ve replicated.
If you’re looking for other options, check out the following.
