September 2025: My Fishing Recap from Utah, Idaho, and Montana

With this list, it looks like I caught over TEN species in total! Maybe more if I can ID some of these fish…

Utah (2)
– Bonneville cutthroat trout
– Brown trout

Idaho (9)
– Yellowstone cutthroat trout
– Snake River Fine-Spotted cutthroat trout
– Rainbow trout
– Brook trout
– Mountain whitefish
– Bull trout
– Westslope cutthroat trout
– Kokanee salmon
– Salmon smolt (Chinook?)

Montana (5 or 6 or 7)
– Brown trout
– Brook trout
– Rainbow trout
– Grayling
– Cutbow
– Cutthroat trout (Yellowstone?)
– Cutthroat trout (Westslope?)

Utah

Idaho

Montana

Of course, up until the last day in Montana, I had already caught more species than I expected on the 11 day fishing trip. I started by catching Bonneville cutthroat and brown trout in Utah. I traveled to Idaho next and caught brook trout, Yellowstone cutthroat, Snake River Fine-Spotted Cutthroat trout, rainbow trout, mountain whitefish, Bull trout, Westslope cutthroat trout, Kokanee salmon, and some sort of Salmon smolt. Finally in Montana, I ended up catching brown trout, brook trout, rainbow trout, Grayling, and cutthroat trout. I think I counted them all and this is the first real time looking back at my species.

So! That would mean I caught two species in Utah, ten species in Idaho, and five species in Montana.

Some brook trout are not pictures because I was bored with them and didn’t want to catch them on this trip because of how invasive they are. I caught them amongst the cutthroat and in beaver ponds. I wan’t impressed, but of course it was September and some were already colored up!

I am going to post some pictures of fish and maybe you can help me ID some. I know it is hard without the watershed, but I will give as much detail without giving away the actual location.