Difference between revisions of "Lees Ferry Sport Fishery"

2015 News about the declining fish status at Fishery

• Whirling Disease Page

Quick Facts

• Bright Angle Creek Trout Reduction Project

• • Fish

• Visitor Use and Experience
• Visitor Experience as it relates to fisheries, include opportunities to fish for rainbow trout in GCNRA's Glen Canyon Reach, which has been referred to as Blue Ribbon by the State of Arizona, and to fish for rainbow and brown trout and a variety of non-native introduced fish species in the main stem Colrado River and some tributaries in GCNP. Most angling in GCNP occurs in or near Bright Angle Creek and Phantom Ranch, particularly in fall and spring (NPS 2006c)
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• GCDAMP- Public Outreach- Lees Ferry Trout Fishery

Arizona Game and Fish Wildlife Views Article titled "Tight Lines at Lees Ferry". Published February 2012

2015

• Natal Origins of Rainbow Trout: Glen Canyon and Marble Canyon
• Drift-Foraging and Bioenergetics Growth Model for Rainbow Trout in the Lees Ferry Tailwater

2011

• Diet studies of Rainbow Trout and Brown Trout in Grand Canyon indicate that these species do eat native fish.
• Rainbow Trout are less piscivorous than Brown Trout, but there are more RBT than BRT
  • "Brown Trout fish consumption rate 20 times that of Rainbow Trout..." (MYard)
• Rainbow and Brown Trout disporpotionately prey on native fish