Shocking The Eagle River
Bob Streb, the owner of Fly Fishing Outfitters in Avon, and I donated some time to help the Colorado Division Of Wild Life shock the Eagle River this morning. Very intersting how this works, the DOW people line across the river with Trodes, which is a long pole that emits electricity, and scan them out front under water. When a fish is found it will swim to the surface and we net them. From there they go into a holding tank to be counted. We covered about a 100yd stretch twice and netted Brown Trout, Rainbows, Sculpins, 1 Cutt, and some Suckers. Pretty cool thing to witness.
now i see how you are “catching” all these fish … i thought you were fly fishing.
This is great. I was born and raised on Bellyache Ridge (Wolcott) and I attended Battle Mountain High School (Class 90) One of the classes I took in High School we got to help out the CDOW with shocking of the Eagle because of the class action lawsuit over the Gilman Mine. The story reminded me of the great experience and of my good freind who was not very good at staying on his feet in the river. He fell in several times and we all had a great time yelling “probes out” Thanks for bringing back the memories and the photo of the Eagle. I grew up fishing right where you were shocking and can remember having to run across the pasture before the two red angus bulls noticed you were there. Thanks again for stirring up the memories.
Josh,
Glad you liked the post. We had one swimmer yesterday. The Eagle is pretty slippery. I like your blog, are you in MT now? fishing around here is really starting to get good. Got to take advantage of it now before high water. Thanks for the response.
Joey,
I do live in Montana now and have been in the Bozeman area for 18 years. I was born and raised in Wolcott and grew up fishing the Eagle every chance I had. I moved to Montana for college and when I found out you can walk up or downstream as far as you want without it being trespassing I decided to stay. I do miss the Eagle, Gore Creek and the Fork but I don’t miss the hassle of getting on to fish or being harrased for being on someones private water. Keep up the post on the water I grew up fishing, and if you make it to Montana get in touch with me.