![]() ![]() “If the water temperatures don't match, we will release some of our water from the truck and we will bucket reservoir water in and we'll temper the fish to get everything as similar as possible,” said Katie Rowher with the Pueblo Fish Hatchery. The two need to be similar to prevent stress on the fish. When trucks arrive at the reservoir the temperature and PH level of the water is compared to water in the transport tanks. ![]() So, you take the number of fish total that you need, and you divide that by the fish per pound.” “We can tell if we're loading 50 pounds or 100 pounds or 200 pounds. “These are catchable rainbow trout,” said Pueblo Fish Hatchery Manager, Quentin Springer.įish that have spent six months growing at the hatchery are being netted and loaded into tanks on the back of trucks for transport to Rampart Range Reservoir.Įach one counts but counting the fish one by one is not practical.īecause all the fish are very similar in size Springer knows the number of fish on the move is very close 4,500. COLORADO - The odds of success for people fishing at Rampart Reservoir went way up on a cool mid-May morning.
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