Eastern Sierra December Trout Fest
December 10th, 2011
Eastern Sierra
These ain’t no Brown Trout…these are “Coleman Strain” Rainbows. The Coleman strain, maintained by the Hot Creek hatchery, is the result of a 1968 importation of fish from the Coleman National Hatchery, Anderson, California. The strain was established at Coleman in 1949 from a shipment of Kamloops trout eggs from Pennask Lake, British Columbia. Over the years at Coleman it was mixed with steelhead and resident rainbow trout from Battle Creek, a Sacramento River tributary, and it is no longer regarded as a Kamloops strain by the CDFG.
Damn fine day.
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