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Golden trout see another successful spawning year

The Wyoming Game and Fish reports another successful golden trout spawning operation wrapped up in July.
Game and Fish collected over 290,000 eggs this year. The department shipped 2,636 golden trout brood eggs to the Ten Sleep Hatchery as well as 75,366 golden trout production eggs to the Daniel Fish Hatchery, Mt. Shavano Hatchery in Colorado, Tokul Creek Hatchery in Washington, and Mackay and McCall Hatcheries in Idaho.
According to a Game and Fish article written in 2016 by Sheridan Fisheries Biologist Andrew Nikirk, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department manages 133 high, alpine lakes for golden trout.
Most of the golden trout waters are in the Wind River mountains (Lander and Pinedale regions), with others in the Absaroka, Snowy, and Bighorn mountains (Laramie, Cody, and Sheridan regions).
In the Cloud Peak Wilderness, on the Cody side (west side) of the Bighorns, there are eleven waters with golden trout and on the Sheridan side (east side) there are four waters with goldens; Elephanthead, Myrtle, Firehole #2, and Frozen #1. Access to these lakes are often difficult but ultimately rewarding; not only for the beauty of the fish themselves, but the locations in which they’re found.
Learn more about the golden trout, here.
