WYOMING – Wyoming Game and Fish officials completed a restocking of Boysen Reservoir with a whole bunch of trout. Some 16,000 pounds of fish in all—or about 35,000 rainbow trout 9-10” in length—were stocked from the Dubois Hatchery into Boysen.
The stocking occurred over multiple days with employees and volunteers netting fish out of tanks at the hatchery, loading them into buckets with water, weighing them, hoisting them up onto the flatbed semi-truck equipped with insulated, oxygenated tanks. The trout were then transported and released the same day to Boysen Reservoir.
Rainbow trout are stocked into Boysen in the fall giving them two survival benefits. First, they have had longer to grow at the hatchery, so they are larger in size when they hit the wild. Secondly, the warm water fish that would generally predate on them—like walleye and sauger—are beginning to slow down their feeding with the colder water.
Hopefully, this will make for good ice fishing all season long. Usually, walleye, sauger, and perch fishing is hot when the ice comes on. Rainbow trout continue to bite throughout the winter.
