Chasing Colorado’s Native Trout with Mark Cole
In this episode of the Tenkara Cast, Daniel sits down with Mark Cole to discuss the native trout of Colorado and Mark’s pursuit of catching and documenting each of Colorado’s native trout with his wife Judy.
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Cover image by Justin Hamblin
Sources cited:
Bestgen, K. R., K. B. Rogers, and R. Granger. 2013. Phenotype predicts genotype for lineages of native cutthroat trout in the Southern Rocky Mountains. Final Report to U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Colorado Field Office, Denver Federal Center (MS 65412), Denver, CO. Larval Fish Laboratory Contribution 177. 99 p., Available at: http://cpw.state.co.us/learn/Pages/ResearchCutthroatTrout.aspx
Metcalf, J. L., V. L. Pritchard, S. M. Silvestri, J. B. Jenkins, J. S. Wood, D. E. Cowley, R. P. Evans, D. K. Shiozawa, and A. P. Martin, 2007, Across the great divide: genetic forensics reveals misidentification of endangered cutthroat trout populations, Molecular Ecology 16:4445-4454.
Metcalf, J. L., S. L. Stowell, C. M. Kennedy, K. B. Rogers, D. McDonald, J. Epp, K. Keepers, A. Cooper, J. J. Austin, and A. P. Martin, 2012, Historical stocking data and 19th century DNA reveal human-induced changes to native diversity and distribution of cutthroat trout, Molecular Ecology 21:5194-5207. Article available at: http://www.cfc.umt.edu/cesu/Reports/NPS/CU/2009/09_11Martin_ROMO_trout%20genetics_frpt.pdf
Supporting info available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.12028/suppinfo
Started listening to it last night. 1/2 way in. Really good stuff! tj
I haven’t been fly fishing for long, but because of podcasts like this, I am learning a lot about natural history, and human involvement in shaping our fisheries. Just finished reading Halverson’s ‘An Entirely Synthetic Fish’ and this was a great follow up. Keep up the good work and interesting guests. Thanks!!
Anton Yupangco, NYC
Great podcast, best one so far. Thanks for posting sources too. Would love a similar interview with an eastcoast brook trout expert talking about range and sub-speciation.
I agree, best of the best! So informative, particularly for those of us with an interest in Colorado’s natives. Please let Mark and his colleagues know that their efforts in Timberline, etc., were not a total loss. First, mistakes happen. We learn and move on.
Personally, I took my daughter up there last summer hunting “Greenbacks” (only vaguely aware that they weren’t the “real” Greenbacks — now I know a lot more!). She got hooked on Tenkara after seeing the beautiful fish up there, watching them behave, and helping me land them. She grabbed the rod and between us we caught and released many, many fish on an Amano Sakasa Kebari. It was such a memorable day for both of us, and she’s now a Tenkara chic…a dad’s dream come true!