Usually I spin fish for salmon/steelhead but for cutthroat I always fly fish. They attack flies very aggresively. If you decide to fly fish these are the basic rules I follow. In freshwater use a spruce fly or a knudson's spider. Keep moving until you catch a fish. Continue to fish this area because where there is one cutthroat there will be another. That's basically it and when you get into cutthroat, the fishing is good.

~ Dr Pepper