For me, I’m not evolved enough to be anxious to catch a fish that weighs less than a pound even if it’s extraordinarily rare. I also like catching rare species and subspecies, but I don’t get overly excited about catching 8” Skull Creek Rainbows. I haven’t caught every salmonid that swims, but I’ve caught more than most. With a respectable income and a reliable four wheel drive vehicle, things that I heretofore never had, many of the unique species could be within my grasp. At some point, I began to crack open books on taxonomy and ichthyology. That fish probably fueled my desire to catch unique species and subspecies of fish more than any other single fish. When I was eighteen years old, I caught my first Lahontan cutthroat from Pyramid Lake. Were content to soak dough baits and fill a stringer. It wasn’t necessarily a desire for big fish, but perhaps it was the satisfaction of catching fish that were unobtainable for the masses of guys that I eventually managed to fool a few respectable browns, and I began to develop a taste for things that weren’t so easily obtained.
After catching hundreds and thousands of rainbows, I wanted the challenge of the wily brown trout, and I began to throw minnow plugs in the evenings. Those skills eventually translated into catching steelhead, which also lead to catching coastal cutthroat trout. My matriculation on the Truckee River involved catching hundreds of gullible rainbows on nightcrawlers and spinners. Catching the big three of the trout world also gave me the skills needed to catch some of the more aberrant species. It’s provided countless hours of enjoyment for me throughout my fishing career.
There is really nothing wrong with catching stub tailed hatchery rainbow, brown, and brook trout.
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