CHEYENNE — A record 210 anglers achieved the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Wyoming Cutt-Slam in 2025. The Cutt-Slam is a fishing challenge in which anglers catch and document the state’s four native subspecies of cutthroat trout — Bonneville, Colorado River, Snake River and Yellowstone — in their native drainages.
The previous single-year Cutt-Slam record was 200 anglers in 2020.
Since the program started in 1996, 2,766 anglers have achieved the Cutt-Slam, and 2025 marked the eighth consecutive year when more than 100 anglers completed the Cutt-Slam.
Recipients receive a personalized certificate and vehicle decal from Game and Fish, and since the summer of 2018, a medallion from Wyoming Trout Unlimited. Anglers from three countries and 49 states have completed the Cutt-Slam. Rhode Island is the only state without a resident who has completed the challenge.
The Cutt-Slam was the idea of the late Ron Remmick, a former Game and Fish fisheries supervisor in the Green River and Pinedale regions who worked for the department for 25 years. Remmick developed the Cutt-Slam to draw attention and appreciation for the habitat needs and management efforts for Wyoming’s cutthroat species.
For more information about the Cutt-Slam and other fishing challenges offered by Game and Fish, go to https://wgfd.wyo.gov/fishing-boating/fishing-challenges.
