Patrick Kennedy, regional fisheries biologist for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, holds a large rainbow-cutthroat hybrid trout after electrofishing on the South Fork of the Snake River. The department will catch and remove rainbow trout from the popular section of the Snake in eastern Idaho until May 23 as part of a feasibility study to see whether reducing the number of rainbow trout using electrofishing can be an effective management technique to improve cutthroat r…
May 19, 2019
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May 19, 2019 1 a.m.
Rainbows get booted from Snake's South Fork
SWAN VALLEY — Patrick Kennedy cradled a massive trout, the kind of fish an angler can remember forever.