For the first time in about two decades, rainbow trout are successfully reproducing in Colorado’s waters. Colorado Parks and Wildlife fisheries biologist Jon Ewert said after years of strategic ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... SALIDA – Colorado fish lovers hunched over buckets at a hatchery, fingers numb inside soaked black wool mittens, scooping up shiny rainbow trout that have ...

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.

Joel Evans has been fishing the same stretch of the Gunnison River in western Colorado for more than 40 years. Like most anglers in those parts, for him, one species of fish is king: the rainbow trout ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If the Brothers Grimm ever wrote a fable about a fish, the rainbow trout surely would have been cast in the lead role. The shimmering salmonid brightly ...

DENVER (AP) - Colorado wildlife managers say rainbow trout are finally recovering in most of the state's major rivers after they were devastated in the 1990s by an ailment called whirling disease.