User talk:Gigharborflyfisher

cresenti trout
hey, I saw your additions to this article, and I'm kinda skeptical. Everything I've read says that it's the Beardslee trout that spawns in the Lyre River, and the Crescentis stay out of there. As well, I've read that the Crescenti has maintained it's distinctness because it spawns at a different time than the other trout. Can you provide a source for the info you've added? Murderbike (talk) 00:29, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Murderbike: According to a study done by Pierce (1984) on the trout of crescent lake, the native cutthroat still maintain a small population in the lake's outlet stream (Lyre River). He also indicated that the Barnes Creek population now consisted of a rainbow x cutthroat hybrid swarm. The study did indicate that the hybridization is limited to Barnes Creek and that both the Beardslee and Crescenti (truly just isolated coastal rainbow and coastal cutthroat populations and not actual subspecies) maintain pure populations in the lake's outlet. The study indicated that the two species have maintained their identities by spawning in different parts of the Lyre River.

If you want to read this information for yourself, it is available in the following books:

Behnke, R. 1992. Native Trout of Western North America. American Fisheries Society Monograph 6. pages 65 to 69.

This is also confirmed in:

Trotter, P.C. 1987. Cutthroat Native Trout of the West. Colorado Associate University Press, Boulder CO. Pages 45 to 47.