We are all about the fish, after all somebody has to watch out for them.

Our family has been visiting the Uinta’s for well over 50 years, the memories created there are priceless and the best of them are all about catching fish. Most people that visit the Uinta Mountains would agree that they go there to catch fish. Sure, the beautiful vista, wildlife, clean air, serenity and more are part of the lure the the Uintas have but if you go and you don’t catch any fish the trip seems to be missing something.

A family tradition we have is to camp in the Sheep Creek Basin Drainage, specifically at Spirit Lake and up until 2013 the fishing there and the surrounding lakes was amazing! We would catch dozens of fish each day and it was endless fun for everyone, especially the kids. Why did that change? Well, at that time the Division of Wildlife decided they wanted to re-introduce the Colorado Cutthroat. Seems like a good idea right, it’s native and a beautiful fish so how bad could that be? To do this they had to poison the lakes in the basin and kill all of the Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, GraYling, and any other fish species in those lakes. After doing so they promised to re-stock the lakes with Tiger Trout and the Colorado Cutthroat. They did hold up their promise and stocked the lakes but there are major downsides to this. Tiger Trout are sterile so they don’t reproduce so the supply of fish is equally dependent on the government stocking the lakes over and over again. They very rarely re-stock these lakes and even when they do they are very small fish and they take years to grow big enough to enjoying catching them. Also, in all the years since they tried this experiment I have yet see a Colorado Cutthroat Trout in the area.

Bottom line is the experiment has failed, just ask the people like us that are having the same experiences. Someone has to step us and help, we see it as our job to get things fixed and back the way they used to be. Bring the fisheries in the Uinta’s back to a self-sustaining nature. We shouldn’t have to be re-stocking all these lakes, re-plant the Brookies and the Rainbows, let them thrive again and make the Uinta’s the fishing hotspot it used to be. Let’s SAVE THE UINTAS!

Proceeds from each sale will go to working on whatever avenue we can find to make this happen. Whether it be legislation or something else, we will make it happen and we need your help.