Bull Trout

During the spring or fall you may have seen Idaho Fish and Game staff building metal picket fences across a nearby stream. These fences are actually an important sampling tool called a picket weir that Fish and Game biologists use to capture and sample migrating salmon and trout.

Idaho Fish and Game has information regarding illegal harvest of bull trout on the Pack River in the Lake Pend Oreille basin this summer. Fish and Game conservation officers are seeking any information the public may have that might lead to identification of the people involved.

Idaho Fish and Game and other agencies recently partnered to complete a series of habitat projects in Trestle Creek in northern Idaho. The projects were designed to benefit bull trout and Westslope cutthroat trout in Lake Pend Oreille and the creeks flowing into it by providing important habitat for young trout.