Fishery below Glen Canyon Dam to be stocked with rainbow trout

[Waterbaby]

https://www.thespectrum.com/story/n...-canyon-dam-stocked-rainbow-trout/2002672002/

Fishery below Glen Canyon Dam to be stocked with rainbow trout
Associated Press Published 12:30 p.m. MT Nov. 14, 2018

(Photo: Mark Henle/The Republic)
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PAGE, Ariz. — A prized fishery below Glen Canyon Dam is getting more rainbow trout.
The Arizona Game and Fish Department says it will stock trout this week below the Lees Ferry boat ramp where anglers can walk in to the Colorado River. That hasn't been done since 1998.

The walk-in section is about three miles long.

Surveys had been showing a decrease in angler catch rates. The Game and Fish Department says the rates rebounded somewhat in the upper portions of the river where anglers go out with guides or on their own boats but not as quickly in the walk-in area.
The department says it will stock trout again in April if needed.

Officials say the fishing should be good because of a recent artificial flood that boosted fish food.

 

[Dworwood]

That was a pretty darn good fishing trip back it the eighties when it was a good fishery. It took a small boat to get over the sand bars and get where most fishermen couldn’t get all the time. Haven’t been there in over 20 years but I have fond memories of those trips and big fish.

 

[Ziggy]

How much do Stripers feed on hatchery raised Rainbows in the river system below the dam after a planting, if at all?

 

[Fursniper]

How much do Stripers feed on hatchery raised Rainbows in the river system below the dam after a planting, if at all?

They don't have any impact on the trout. Its rare to see a striper in that section of the river.