North 40 Fly Shop eMagazine February 2016 | Page 38

T humbing through some old fish pictures, I found myself wondering: what was it like back in the good, old days? When were the good, old days? How bad were the rivers when they were at their worst? When did they start to shape up again? So, I began to do some research, and after a while, I found what shaped up to be a little history lesson on the Westslope Cutthroat Trout (WCT) in our area.