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[Jake Larsen]

Are those wild fish or stocked?

Most of those ones are wild…all six of the big male west slope cutties, the golden, and the brookie. The hen west slope cuttie and the big YCT were stockers. Truly self sustaining natural reprod high alpine lakes are pretty rare but they do exits. Most are a blend of some limited repro, supplemented by stocking efforts, typically by helicopter. Many have zero suitable spawning structure and are 100% reliant on stocking. Funny enough in many cases the wind action on certain shoreline structures creates enough movement for limited reprod even when there isn’t a suitable inlet/outlet creek environment.


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[9487329]

Undisclosed, overgrown small creek in southern Colorado. Any chance these are true greenbacks?

 

[Acorn]

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Undisclosed, overgrown small creek in southern Colorado. Any chance these are true greenbacks?

Southern CO? Not greenbacks. Greenbacks are native to the eastern slope of the front range. They look like they might be Rio’s with the heavy spot pattern on their tail and back half.

 

[9487329]

Southern CO? Not greenbacks. Greenbacks are native to the eastern slope of the front range. They look like they might be Rio’s with the heavy spot pattern on their tail and back half.

Looking at the dispersion map, it was solidly in the Rio Grande cutthroat territory, thanks for the ID