Brookies First in Colorado

Did you know that Eastern Brook Trout were the first salmonids to reach Colorado?  They beat the rainbow by 10 years!

In late 1872, Denver Alderman, James M. Broadwell, obtained 10,000 fertile brook trout eggs from a fish culturist in Boscobel, Wisconsin and hatched them at his facility located on the South Platte River ten miles north of Denver.

Source: Summit Daily News