Native Trout Road Trip - Part I

[WVBrookie]

7,500 miles driven, over 60 miles hiked, 15 species/sub-species (12 in their native watershed and 10 new ones for my bucket list), and we completed the California Heritage Trout Challenge. The CHTC is like the Wyoming Cuttslam but of the 12 native sub-species you need to catch 6.

The full reports are on my blog but here are the species/sub-species we caught:

New Mexico

Gila Trout

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/shocchris/DSC04391.jpg


Arizona

Apache Trout

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/shocchris/DSC04399.jpg


California

Kern River Rainbow

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/shocchris/DSC04415.jpg

Little Kern Golden

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/shocchris/DSC04432.jpg

California Golden Trout

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/shocchris/DSC04490.jpg

Lahontan Cutthroat

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/shocchris/DSC04675.jpg

McCloud River redband

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/shocchris/DSC04695.jpg

Goose Lake redband

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/shocchris/DSC04707.jpg

Warner Lakes redband

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/shocchris/DSC04719.jpg


Oregon

Catlow Valley redband

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/shocchris/DSC04723.jpg

Lahontan cutthroat (non-native)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/shocchris/DSC04725.jpg

Harney-Mahleur Basin redband

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/shocchris/DSC04730.jpg

Chris

[pineman19]

Awesome looking fish! That's one heck of a trip. Almost like around the world in 80 days, LOL

Neal

[Stonefly]

Wow! Beautiful fish, great trip.

sb

[Apache Trout]

Very Cool!
A.T.