Here are photos from Wednesday's visit to Colorado Parks and Wildlife's Bellvue-Watson hatcheries near LaPorte. Club members were guests of the hatchery staff who stock the trout used for the club's Senior Fishing Derby and Loveland Kids Derby, as well as giving us some tasty fish to catch.
The hatcheries are among 19 in the state that breed, hatch, rear and stock more than 90 million fish each year. The Bellvue-Watson Hatchery & Rearing Unit is a cold-water facility that raises rainbow trout, rainbow/cuttrhroat hybridgs, cutthroats, splake and brown trout. Watson raises about 300,000 catchable trout each year, while Bellvue annually raises about 1.5 million sub-catchable trout.
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| No good field trip to the hatchery would be complete without a celebratory lunch at nearby Vern's. Photos by Rick Golz |
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