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Sports & Recreation > Fishing > My Fish

My Fish

They're not exactly my fish, but they do hang out in my part of the Big Thompson River.

Yes, we're still getting the occasional snow storm.

Usually, this is my view of the fish. When the river is not too high I can stand on the bridge and see them in the water.

Here are photos taken by one of the fishing guides who brings clients to fish on my property. After the pictures are taken, the fish are gently released back into the river. Wild trout can live as long as 11 years, but their average life-span is 4 to 6 years, so what we're seeing are old friends.

Wild trout are also more colorful than stocked trout. These are Brown Trout aka German Brown and Rainbow Trout.

posted on Apr 20, 2011 8:20 PM ()

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I have rabbits. Does that count?

comment by solitaire on Apr 22, 2011 6:41 AM ()

Yes it does. We had the same wild rabbit around here for years, just the one, but the fox ate it last year.

reply by troutbend on Apr 22, 2011 2:15 PM ()

Love all wild life.

comment by tealstar on Apr 22, 2011 4:53 AM ()

Me too, except mice, flies, spiders, and snakes. And rats.

reply by troutbend on Apr 22, 2011 2:23 PM ()

good for you girl.Let them go and why not.

comment by fredo on Apr 21, 2011 1:48 PM ()

Also it's the law.

reply by troutbend on Apr 22, 2011 2:22 PM ()

So glad to heard they're released. Poor fishies.

comment by nittineedles on Apr 21, 2011 12:17 PM ()

One of the reasons I don't fish is I don't want to put through even the catching and releasing, but it's fun to see the fishermen having a good time.

reply by troutbend on Apr 22, 2011 2:22 PM ()

I see some happy fishermen. I am glad they release them.

comment by elderjane on Apr 21, 2011 11:27 AM ()

That Asian lady is just tiny. She and her husband (the grim looking guy) have been here twice. The older guy is from Massachusetts, his son bought him a day with the guide as a gift. He's the one whose wife is an artist and I sat on the bridge with her and got a watercolor lesson.

reply by troutbend on Apr 22, 2011 2:21 PM ()

We have a school of manatees that live in the canal right outside my window--I love these gentle,huge 'cows'.

comment by greatmartin on Apr 20, 2011 9:52 PM ()

It would be so exciting to see one just moseying by.

reply by troutbend on Apr 22, 2011 2:18 PM ()

So glad they are released.... Native wild species are so important to preserve.

comment by marta on Apr 20, 2011 8:54 PM ()

This river used to be stocked up until about 17 years ago, so these aren't the native, native trout, but at least they are wild in the sense they hatched from eggs laid here not at a hatchery.

reply by troutbend on Apr 22, 2011 2:18 PM ()

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