Fly Fishing: the Collegiate Peaks for Arctic Grayling & Rio Grande Cutthroats, Book of Secrets vol 1

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From: Pg. 18 of my personal book of secret spots, I target Arctic Grayling and Rio Grande Cutthroats.

Arctic Grayling “thymallus arcticus”

NOT native to Colorado, but are an exotic freshwater species with a soft, delicate mouth which often makes them more difficult to set a hook.
They are EXTREMELY hard to find In Colorado OUTSIDE of Joe Wright Reservoir (Cache la Poudre watershed) and Pearl Lake near Steamboat. There are currently only 4 other” lakes I know of in the Collegiate Peaks, Colorado that hold these fish - and Hartenstein Lake no longer has them. (Much like Kelly Lake no longer has California Golden Trout). There are some lakes in the Grand Mesa, which I have no experience with.

Rio Grande Cutthroat “Oncorhynchus clarki virginalis”

NATIVE to Colorado; they grow big and are generally, a faster growing species of Cutt than our Greenbacks or CRCs.
Historically, in 1541, Francisco de Coronado’s army would have encountered these gems in the headwaters of the Pecos River, south of present day Santa Fe. The Rio Grande Cutt also has the special distinction of being “...the southernmost distribution of any form of cutthroat”. - Behnke’s Summer 1988 article in TROUT Magazine, ‘Rio Grande Cutthroat’.

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