Acristickid
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A biologist from Colorado sent me a text yesterday stating he was surveying a stream that had never been stocked or surveyed previously.
This is from the Upper Arkansas River tributary.
There is an extinct Yellowfin Cutthroat in Arkansas River tributary/lake relatively close by.
2 years ago a fished for a newly discovered Cutthroat that has CO Cutthroat genes but unlike any others and is east of Colorado river and continental divide.
Called a Hayden Creek cutthroat that existed in just a few miles of stream and was moved to fishless refuge stream due to a fire. No records for this fish either.
Anyway the fish he sent looks different than the Hayden creek. Will see what the testing reveals. On one level it’s great to have something that was thought extinct to be rediscovered and alive and then for me personally, I prefer not to discover any more Trout.
This is from the Upper Arkansas River tributary.
There is an extinct Yellowfin Cutthroat in Arkansas River tributary/lake relatively close by.
2 years ago a fished for a newly discovered Cutthroat that has CO Cutthroat genes but unlike any others and is east of Colorado river and continental divide.
Called a Hayden Creek cutthroat that existed in just a few miles of stream and was moved to fishless refuge stream due to a fire. No records for this fish either.
Anyway the fish he sent looks different than the Hayden creek. Will see what the testing reveals. On one level it’s great to have something that was thought extinct to be rediscovered and alive and then for me personally, I prefer not to discover any more Trout.