brookie in indian creek reservoir

[bolden]

i had heard that there were once brookies planted in indian creek
reservoir, but i did not know if they were still there. i found out theyare.
I caught a small brookie yesterday, along with a few cuts and a few
rainbows. didn't manage to get the brown thoough.

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[Langenbeck]

Nice post & excellent pictures. Looking back in my notes on 27 Oct 1974 took 18 fish, 16 Hot Creek rainbows, a 17.5" cutthroat and a 16" brook trout. So 31 years ago there were brook trout in Indian Creek Res.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Thanks alot.

Sometimes there are planting records from the CA DF&G?

Very nice photos.

They are 1280 pixels wide. Can you try to reduce them to ~800 wide in the future so the page doesn't get so wide?

That is an interesting reservoir.

My brother Dick caught a fat Rainbow trout there that was about as big around as it was long some years ago.

[Hairstacker]

Very nice, some great looking fish there! Looks like you had a great day. What'd you catch 'em on?

[bolden]

the cut and bow pictures were on an olive stillwater nymph. a few more were on a griffiths gnat, and the rest were on a big black leech. the one thats hanging out of the brookies mouth.

[jfkowalski]

Over the years, Indain Creek has had a bit of everything planted in it. It is planted by both DF&G and Alpine Co. Often the State puts a lot of excess brood stock in the lake in the late fall. Big fish!!
There were some nice brokies put in the lake perhaps 8 to 10 years ago. However the streams running into the lake do so for such a short duration, I would doubt if anything could successfully breed there. To the contrary, I believe that DF&G has discontinued planting brookies in most lakes because they are not native. But then neither are rainbows in the Great Basin.