Stocking Cutthroat

[bigalcal]

Call me naive but, I just heard from a reliable source that 38,000 cutties were just stocked in the Oldman watershed. For some reason I thought they were all there naturally. Have they always been stocking there?

[fisher26]

Hmm... I'd be interested to hear the answer to that - I too thought the cuts were in there naturally.

[Taco]

high mountain lakes likely, anywhere there is a chance of non-native pollution on public lands they use a native fish for stocking. I discovered this summer that we lost a slowly recovering foothills cutthroat stream to non-native pollution, likely source is a stocked private pond that blew out in June of 2005

 

 

 

 

[troutfriend]

just a rumor.

http://www.mywildalberta.com/documents/Fis...Report-2010.pdf

 

only stocking of cutts this year was in Upper K lakes. ASRD does not stock flowing waters in Southern Alberta.

[bigalcal]

I shall double check with my source. I didn't think they stocked flowing waters either.

[Taco]

high mountain lakes likely, anywhere there is a chance of non-native pollution on public lands they use a native fish for stocking. I discovered this summer that we lost a slowly recovering foothills cutthroat stream to non-native pollution, likely source is a stocked private pond that blew out in June of 2005

 

Or 3N trips.. I just relearned something today. Thanks for posting that troutfriend

[snuffy]

The 2008 report has them stocking cutts in 4 Mile Creek, the Highwood, Kananaskis River, Lost Knife Creek.......etc

 

The idea is probably to give the cutts a leg up on the non-natives.

[Gil]

The 2008 report has them stocking cutts in 4 Mile Creek, the Highwood, Kananaskis River, Lost Knife Creek.......etc

 

The idea is probably to give the cutts a leg up on the non-natives.

Interesting.... I picked up a cut bow on the Bow last week....

[bigalcal]

My "source" just messaged me this partial list of stocked areas. Her husband stocked all these lakes. Chopper pilot.

 

Ok here is a partial list of where he dumped the fishies. Sheep River, Ribbon Lake,Lillian L, Lower Galatea L, Fortress L, Shark L, Ford L, Cougar Creek, Burns L, Picle Jar L, Highwood River Beaver Ponds, Lineham Creek near Hwy 40, Odlum L, Loomis L, Lake of Horns, Carnarvon L, Etherington L and more near Canmore and Kananaskis.