On 07/24/2011 12:31 PM, Donna King wrote:
> Hello all, we just got back from vacation in Colorado. We sure had a blast and got extra blessed with a sighting of endangered Cutthroat Trout of Bear lake. Its spawning season so the male fish was very red in color and stunning, he was quite big.
Back in the '70s, we visited Redfish Lake in central Idaho. Guess where
it got its name :-). In spawning season the stream feeding the lake was
solid red when we looked down into it from a footbridge.
The run kept diminishing until, in 1992, only one fish made it back. He
was nicknamed Lonesome Larry.
With a lot of help from hatcheries, the run has been gradually
restored. Last year over a thousand fish returned on their own.
Note these are sockeye salmon, not cutthroat trouts. Donna's post just
reminded me.
Here's a nice story and photo:
http://nwpublicmedia.typepad.com/our_northwest_water/2008/08/sockeye-salmon.html
Larry B
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It's turtles, all the way down!
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