Hope you all had a wonderful summer! Here is the club news for late summer/early fall 2019.
Helping Colorado Parks & Wildlife with Fish Surveys
Fish Farm
Things are fairly business as usual at the fish farm. We passed our bio test in early July. The bio test happens every year and insures that the environment we’re providing the fish is a healthy one. Once that’s confirmed, we’re able to get our next batch of Cuttbows to raise (again, big thank you to Colorado Parks & Wildlife for providing these). Since then, they’ve been doing great and settling in well. We’re also finally down to our 150 fish holdover number which resulted in a lot of stocking over the summer (more on that in the stocking section). Cleanings still happen every other weekend and we can always use extra help. Use the help out button at the top to send us an email for more info.
Kid’s Ponds and Stocking
The kid’s ponds saw an incredible summer. The kid’s derby was a success and saw a lot of kids bringing in a lot fish. Thank you as always to all our supporters and donations from local businesses. Check out our supports page for a full list.
A great snow-pack meant great water flow in and out of the ponds all summer, at no point did we need to consider closing the head gates. This meant there was healthy and happy fish to be caught all summer. Due to a better than usual yield of holdover fish from last winter, we were able to stock every month this summer from May to October. So there might still be some chances to catch fish if there’s some warm weekends in November.
A special thank you from the club to members of our community who have worked to keep the area clean; from creek cleanups to passersby throwing out trash. Thank you.
Fish Surveys
The club got a great opportunity to help out Parks & Wildlife with some fish surveys. These surveys help to determine if work is needed in terms of sustaining healthy fish populations in the area. The surveys we helped with were mostly on different parts of South Boulder Creek. Below are some photos.
High Lake Stocking
For the first time since the 2013 floods, the club got to stock the high lakes for Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Again, we would like to thank them for the opportunity to help and hopefully we can stock more next year! Head over to the news post on stocking here for more info.