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It’s no secret fish grow large in the Blue River below Green Mountain Reservoir, certainly on that reach flowing through a large ranch where fish regularly are fed. Nor is it a real surprise the 33-inch, 17-pound, 2.6-ounce Snake River cutthroat taken by Rob Peckham of Oak Creek establishes a state record for that species. Peckham, 48, caught the fish Aug. 28 on a Rapala.
The Snake River variety isn’t native to Colorado and the Division of Wildlife chooses to list the record separately, since it maintains a category for native cutthroat species: Colorado, Greenback and Rio Grande. Thing is, no one knows precisely the species of the previous record cutt, a 16-pounder purportedly caught at Twin Lakes Reservoir in 1964.
