Gila Trout
It's remarkable the Gila trout species is still residing in the southern streams of New Mexico and Arizona. Each year there seems to be a wild fire somewhere in Gila Country, threatening to wipe out a stream's entire population of trout. And, unfortunately, the fires do just that. Kill off a sustaining population of Gila trout, and threatening the very existence of the species. Steve and I have been fishing in Gila Country for many years, with some great fly fishing adventures. Sadly however, on a couple of trips, we would discover after returning home huge wild fires burning through the areas where we were camping and fishing. Both of those fires wiped out all the trout in the streams we were fishing. I wouldn't say we are bad luck for the Gila trout, but Game & Fish would probably ban us from Gila Country if they knew our history down in Gila Country. There have been other fires following our fishing trips down there, but they erupted several weeks later. Those poor G...
