A Colorado Parks and Wildlife fish survey along the Lower Blue River cites a billionaire landowner’s practice of feeding fish ...

SUMMIT COUNTY, Colorado ” After being decimated by whirling disease, Colorado’s rainbow trout fishery could be primed for a big comeback. State researchers said they’re encouraged by the results of an ...

In the 1990s, rainbow trout in Colorado died. A lot of them. Millions of them. Whirling disease, an imported aquatic disease first discovered in Germany in 1893, left young trout swimming in circles.

(CBS4) --State researchers and biologists declared victory this week over whirling disease, a malady that decades ago sent Colorado's rainbow trout population into a tailspin. "The wild rainbows ...

SALIDA, Colo. (CBS4) --Thirty-one years and millions of dollars into the fight against whirling disease, a strain of the iconic Colorado rainbow trout is at last showing signs of natural resistance.

Trout stocking is continuing in the Colorado River in the Bullhead City/Laughlin area. "The Willow Beach hatchery gives us a nice rainbow trout plant," said Rusty Braun, proprietor of Riviera Marina ...

Editor’s Note: A previous version of this story inaccurately reported that native trout species had returned to the channel. While Colorado Parks and Wildlife has reported recovery of brown trout and ...

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Rainbow trout from the Gunnison River have developed an immunity to whirling disease. These fish are now being stocked in the Arkansas River near Salida in hopes they will reproduce. Colorado’s ...

For decades, Dillon Reservoir has been a place where anglers could hook the fish of a lifetime — a 10-pound, 30-inch wild brown trout. But the brown trout population in one of Colorado’s most visible ...

After being devastated by whirling disease in the 1990s, Colorado’s rainbow trout populations are recovering in most major rivers, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said. “It’s been a long road, ...