Beaver tailwater sampling

[Quillback]

Beaver Tailwater 2025 Sampling

The Trout Management Program recently completed the annual sample of Beaver Tailwater. The 2025 sample was comprised of 43% Brown Trout, 54% Rainbow Trout, and a large (16 inch) Cutthroat Trout, a fish accidentally stocked by the Norfork National Fish Hatchery. The largest trout collected was a 30-inch, 15-pound Brown Trout! Several large Rainbows were also collected, with the largest measuring 19 inches. Visit our website for more information about fishing Beaver Tailwater.


Large Beaver Tailwater Brown Trout


A beautiful Beaver Tailwater Rainbow Trout!


Cutthroat Trout


Brown Trout

[tjm]

If my arithmetic is good that means that a single cutthroat makes up  3% of the sampling, so a total of 33 fish with 14 browns and 18 rainbows, that's not nearly as many fish as I would have thought they would collect over a 7mile stretch. 

[Devan S.]

3 minutes ago, tjm said:

If my arithmetic is good that means that a single cutthroat makes up  3% of the sampling, so a total of 33 fish with 14 browns and 18 rainbows, that's not nearly as many fish as I would have thought they would collect over a 7mile stretch. 

Good point although there is usually other by-catches in the sampling but they were not mentioned. Those browns are all congregated up last time I was down there. Would not surprise me at all if all the browns came from a single 50-100 yard stretch of water. In that second picture, you can see several 6-8 laying in the tank behind the picture of the cutthroat. 

 

[snagged in outlet 3]

I’ve always wanted to check it out.  But that doesn’t sound like many fish??

[Devan S.]

They said zero stocking since the emergency orders and likely zero for awhile. 

I'm still seeing some pictures on facebook of guides and the front of the boat "keeper" pictures.