December 2014 SOTM Winner - Lahontan
Blake Hunter and his rotund lahontan wrap up 2014 with a December victory. Stay tuned for 2014 Slab of the Year Voting...
Blake Hunter and his rotund lahontan wrap up 2014 with a December victory. Stay tuned for 2014 Slab of the Year Voting...
Ryan Briscoe sports a grande NV cutt earlier this month.
Pyramid Lake, already famous for its ladders and large Lahontans, is now kicking out large Pilot Peak Cutthroats, direct descendants of the of the vanished Pyramid Lake strain of Lahontan Cutthroat Trout.
In 2006, the Lahontan NFHC, in partnership with the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe began stocking Pilot Peak Lahontan Cutthroat Trout into Pyramid Lake. Over 780,000 juvenile Pilot Peak LCT have been stocked in a variety of locations around Pyramid Lake.
They waited to see how the fish might readapt to its ancestral home.
The answer came from ecstatic anglers.
LINK (via: The NY Times)
Here is the "Bringing Back a Behemoth" slide show that accompanies the NY Times article.