Battle for the Blue: Colorado’s “Jurassic Park” Controversy

The two,000-acre ranch, owned by billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II, gained public consideration many years in the past with its in-stream trout habitat enhancements and its extremely giant trout, which develop fats on a weight loss plan of pellets. Photograph courtesy of Ben McCormick/Cutthroat Anglers

Final week, we posted about a brewing controversy on Colorado’s Blue River, the place river customers, personal landowners, and state regulators have come into battle. Writing in Fly Fisherman, Ross Purnell breaks down the problems concerned and speaks to a number of of the gamers on either side to provide a extra rounded view of what’s occurring:

In line with [Friends of the Lower Blue River], the best way to avoid wasting the river’s trophy-size trout is 10-year pilot program to restrict floating fishermen on peak days. Nonfishing boaters wouldn’t want a allow, nor would anglers who’ve authorized proper to stroll on the personal property that ensconces the river. In line with FOLBR’s proposal, the objective could be 4 to 9 boats complete on peak days.

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