Icing Trout in a Snowstorm

  • Mitch Bradshaw
    Hugo, MN
    Posts: 297
    #1359526

    On Saturday, January 4th the forecast called for snow and 15 degree temps but that didn’t stop Kerri & I from getting out and enjoying what Colorado has to offer. We loaded up our packs and headed for the mountains. We had the lake to ourselves and it was incredibly peaceful! The Brookies came to play along with a Greenback Cutthroat trout. We lost a lot of footage due to our cameras fogging up but still able to piece this together!

    To watch the video, click HERE

    kwp
    Eden Prairie
    Posts: 857
    #1377180

    Realy cool

    Those brookies sure are colorfull and so are the cutthroats. Sure nice to get away from the crowds like you did.

    Just curious, I know the brookies are not native but are they “natural” and reproduce on their own in your little lake or is yearly stocking required. How about the cuttroats?? The reason I ask is because almost all of our stream trout lakes (brookies, rainbows, splake) here in MN require stocking as they cannot reproduce on their own in a lake.

    Randy Wieland
    Lebanon. WI
    Posts: 13615
    #1377190

    Making me “home-sick” I was in Wellington from the end of Sept through mid Nov this year working on a project. Every time I come back to WI from there, I feel homesick for months. I’ve been wanting to move for about 20 years but can’t figure out how I’ll get to see my wife again if I do. She’s too set of living here.
    Sure is a beautiful place and I can’t wait to get back there, hopefully this spring

    cat-stevens
    Rochester,MN
    Posts: 449
    #1377222

    Very nice video. Thanks for posting it up.

    bullcans
    Northfield MN
    Posts: 2010
    #1377251

    Very cool
    Well done and I like the background music too!Who is that BTW?

    Mitch Bradshaw
    Hugo, MN
    Posts: 297
    #1377435

    Quote:


    Just curious, I know the brookies are not native but are they “natural” and reproduce on their own in your little lake or is yearly stocking required. How about the cuttroats?? The reason I ask is because almost all of our stream trout lakes (brookies, rainbows, splake) here in MN require stocking as they cannot reproduce on their own in a lake.


    They do a lot of stocking here in Colorado but in this particular lake I know the Brookies reproduce naturally now. There is plenty of food source and a lot of good habitat for them. They were becoming stunted and overpopulated so I know that the DOW introduced a few species like the Tiger trout and Splake to prey on the smaller Brookies to thin out the population which will lead to better size. And it’s worked. Now the cutthroats, I’m not positive – the only ones I’ve heard of being caught are all pretty small so I’d guess they are stocked but I can’t say for sure!

    Mitch Bradshaw
    Hugo, MN
    Posts: 297
    #1377674

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    Very cool
    Well done and I like the background music too!Who is that BTW?


    It’s a Royalty Free Track I found on YouTube. Here is a link to it: Royalty Free Music I really like it, very relaxing and peaceful much like the outing that we filmed!

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