Yet another nifty piece recently out of the Missoulian; read Fish Finders: Cutthroats give up spawning secrets in Rock Creek here. Kudos to the staff for getting out and digging a little deeper than the typical headlines for some very instructive and entertaining regional stories. Image via the Missoulian.
Native Fish
Stories from the Fountain: A Native Brook Trout Odyssey from Matteo Moretti on Vimeo. “Stories from the Fountain” depicts the 3-week long fishing-research journey of four passionate fly fisherman/aspiring environmentalists and one doctoral student across the state of Pennsylvania. Their mission? To understand and give voice to the story behind native brook trout from the […]
Another good article recently in the Missoulian, this one looking at Yellowstone Cutthroat on what sounds like a kick-ass trip this past summer. Good news is always welcome… Read it here.
WNTI has once again opened their RFP process for 2019 projects benefitting native trout of the West in particular; what a great opportunity to compete for funding to get your regional project done. Details are here, and note that your submitted project needs to be aligned with WNTI’s strategic priority list. Git ‘er done.
An interesting read in Fly Fisherman from a couple of weeks ago – Why A Native Fish Coalition? Williams quite often is the loudest voice in the room, though clearly not all agree with the extirpation of existing fish populations in restoration efforts. Personally I enjoy William’s work for the most part, though like many […]
The Billings Gazette has just published a piece by Brett French (20 Nov 16) updating Yellowstone National Park’s lake trout eradication efforts. It was another record year for removal of lake trout from Yellowstone Lake — about 366,000 of the nonnative trout were netted and killed in an effort to restore the fishery’s native Yellowstone […]
Blueheads & Bonnevilles from Western Native Trout Initiative on Vimeo. The Western Native Trout Initiative and the Desert Fish Habitat Partnership recently posted “Blueheads and Bonnevilles”, a short film about the work they’re doing with their partners in the Weber River, Utah, to benefit the native fish bluehead sucker and Bonneville cutthroat trout. Read more […]
The Utah Cutthroat Slam site has been live for a few days and from where we sit TU and Utah DNR have put together a nifty program to draw attention to Utah’s four native cutthroat trout – the Bonneville, Colorado River, Bear River and Yellowstone cutthroats. They’ve put together a fine introductory video below and […]
Cutthroat 101- Adventure calls from Western Native Trout Initiative on Vimeo. See more about WNTI’s new Chasing Native Trout campaign here.
The Western Native Trout Initiative has launched a public-facing campaign called Chasing Native Trout. Honing in on four native trout favorites – Westslope Cutthroat, Bonneville Cutthroat, Lahontan Cutthroat, and Rio Grande Cutthroat – the site is geared to give fly fishers and other native trout aficionados a bit more detail about their favorite natives. Details […]
A few weeks ago the Jackson Hole News and Guide reported on the Soda Butte restoration project, shrewdly noting that “it takes just two brook trout to bring down a cutthroat fishery” (opening sentence). For those interested in the (at times, at least) perceived paradox of wiping out an existing, stable fishery to then repopulate […]
Fully recognizing that all fly fishers aren’t on the same page with regard to native trout restoration programs in Yellowstone National Park (count us among those with unanswered questions), it is interesting to read reports of graying restoration being done recently on one of our faves – Grayling Creek. (Don’t tread there alone, bring the […]
Roughly half of the public comment period has already passed regarding the pending Soda Butte Creek Native Fish Restoration Project, part of Yellowstone’s grand Native Fish Conservation Plan (link below). As always there are several layers to the story. About That (Probably Unfair) Literary Reference Back in 1987 Alston Chase wrote Playing God in Yellowstone: […]
An interesting coalition of fishers is mounting an effort to help bring a volitional fish (steelhead and salmon) passage to the Opal Springs dam complex on the lower Crooked River. The coalition includes Northwest Steelheaders, Native Fish Society, Central Oregon Flyfishers, WaterWatch of Oregon, Crooked River Watershed Council among others. From a NFS email recently […]
River Snorkel: Trout Generations from River Snorkel on Vimeo. From the Vimeo post – Rainbow trout lead complex lives. Some are born and choose to stay in their home stream, some choose to migrate to the ocean and return as steelhead. This video illustrates the generational differences between these two life stages. Some have suggested […]
