Stocking Season in Full Swing

  While reading through the NMGDF Weekly Stocking Report something jumped out. Four different entries for Navajo Reservoir for Triploid Rainbow Trout; 67331 fish between 6.9 and 7.2 inches totaling 9655 lbs in the span of 3 days.
Those are several healthy numbers as some stocked fish will reach decent size in the next year or two, but what I am excited about is the life span of Rainbow Trout, a contested 11 years. Understanding that wild Rainbows have a 90% predation rate, and hatchery reared fish even higher its still exciting to see the possibility of about 6000 fish reaching sizable weights at the 5/7/9 year marks.