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Skagit Bull Trout Primer Chapter 5: Some Interesting Encounters Editor's Note: This article wraps up @Smalma's awesome series on our native char, the bull trout. If somehow you have arrived here without reading the other articles, please click this link and check them out, you won't be...

Skagit Bull Trout Primer Ch 4: A Mystery - Dolly Varden or Bull Trout? For decades the native char of the Skagit basin was thought to be Dolly Varden. The fish had access to the salt and some of the population spend time there foraging much like the local sea-run cutthroat. That thinking was...

Skagit Bull Trout Primer Ch 3: The Repeats Over the long pre-spawn holding period and the rigors of the actual spawning process, the adult bull trout may lose 1/3 or more of their pre-migration weight so it is hardly surprising that post spawn these fish evacuate the spawning grounds quickly...

Skagit Bull Trout Primer Ch 2: The Spawn The Skagit bull trout spawning grounds typically define the upper basin limit reached by the various migrating salmonids. In one case the bull trout migrate more than 115 miles from tide water while climbing more than 3,000 feet in elevation to their...

Skagit Bull Trout Primer Ch 1: The Early Years In the North Cascades it is winter. On a Skagit basin stream located above 2,000 feet elevation, the forest floor and stream banks have been snow covered for months and the water itself stands just barely above freezing. The clean and stable gravel...