To clarify regarding the above post, the harvest of brook trout in the Elbow and Highwood rivers applies to the river only, and not to the tributaries. There is no point in harvesting an unlimited number of brookies in Cataract Creek, as this stream was barren of fish upstream of the waterfall, so there are no native cutthroat or bull trout that to recover in Cataract Creek upstream of the waterfall. There are a small number of cutthroat trout in Cataract Creek upstream of the falls; however, these are the offspring of cutthroat trout that we stocked in the 1980s in a barren section of Wilkinson Creek upstream of the waterfall.
Jim
Last edited by jstelfox; 06-03-2011 at 05:07 PM.
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