the reservation in Pyramid Lake, the cutthroat trout were not the large fish of the late 19th and early 20th century. In the late 1970, biologists discovered a surviving population of a pure Pyramid Lake strain in a small headwaters stream on the Nevada-Utah border that had at some point around 1900 been introduced into the stream. In 1995, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service began rearing these fish in the Lahontan National Fish Hatchery in Gardnerville, Nevada. In 2006, the Pyramid Lake strain of Lahontan cutthroat trout were reintroduced into the lake. As Pyramid Lake has a very shallow shoreline, anglers use ladders to stand comfortably in of water and cast to trout cruising along shoreline breaks. Considered a "world-class" fishery, anglers routinely catch cutthroat trout exceeding . As a symbol The cutthroat trout is the state fish of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, while particular subspecies of cutthroat are the state fish of Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. Idaho Montana and Wyoming–Cutthroat trout Colorado–Greenback cutthroat trout Nevada–Lahontan cutthroat trout New Mexico–Rio Grande cutthroat trout Utah–Bonneville cutthroat trout References Further reading External links Dr. Dave Neely podcast (includes discussion of cutthroat trout diversity) Oncorhynchus Cold water fish Fish of the Pacific Ocean Fish of Canada Fish of the Western United States Freshwater fish of North America Freshwater fish of the United States Fauna of the Northwestern United States Fauna of the Southwestern United States Fauna of California Fauna of the Rocky Mountains Fauna of the Sierra Nevada (United States) Fish described in 1836 Symbols of Wyoming