Flyingfish -
Please check with the regulation pamphlet prior to fishing - in spite of what Robert said the bag limit is 2 fish on most streams and I believe that nearly all (all?) of the streams in SW Washington require release of all wild cutthroat.

Robert -
you seem to have concerns that the use of bait results in high mortality of cutts - the literature supports that insight - most studies peg that mortality at 35% or more. However you disregard those type of studies for steelhead so why the concern with the mortatlity on cuttrhoat?- same type of science!

Tight lines
S malma