He told me that I might want to fish upper Bear Creek as soon as possible because it was going to be closed to fishing in the near future to protect a population of greenback cutthroat trout. At ...

In 2012, CPW confirmed that tiny Bear Creek, on the southwest edge of Colorado Springs and in the Arkansas River drainage, was home to an unlikely population of wild greenback cutthroat trout.

But in 2012, researchers discovered the world’s only natural, purebred population of greenback cutthroat trout in a 3.5 mile run of Bear Creek. Since that discovery, CPW has managed a trout ...

Decades back, greenback cutthroat trout were wiped out from their native waters in Colorado’s South Platte drainage. Somehow a healthy population had been transplanted to Bear Creek.

Bear River – 1, 250 rainbow trout. ... Located near Downey, this reservoir provides good fishing opportunities for Yellowstone cutthroat trout, rainbow trout and cutbows.

COLORADO, USA — Greenback cutthroat trout, the state fish of Colorado, have naturally reproduced in their native waters for the first time since an intensive stocking program designed to bring ...

COLORADO, USA — Greenback cutthroat trout, the state fish of Colorado, have naturally reproduced in their native waters for the first time since an intensive stocking program designed to bring ...