My 76 year old fishing mentor wants to go for cutthroat trout in the Fraser River near the mouth of the Vedder next month.

I have never fished for a cutthroat so any advice, especially on lures, rigs, methods would be appreciated.

We will be boat fishing from my little 14' dinghy. I have both a 25HP plus a 5HP kicker on it. I have a 20lb river anchor on a 10' chain, 100' nylon rope anchor rode.

I assume you use binoculars to spot them on surface feeding on salmon fry then hit those areas? If you are not hitting, keep moving to find them?

I don't fly fish but I may try it. If anyone can recommend a good starter setup for fly fishing, price limit $400 I would appreciate it.

I have a Mitchell 300 with a deep spool of 8lb mono on a 7' spinning rod and a Quantum level wind with 14lb mono on a 9' rod.

Lures, small spinners with barbless single hooks? No. 5 or 6 hooks with salmon roe below floats?

I will get a catch and release net for those we are releasing.