SUMMIT COUNTY, Colorado ” After being decimated by whirling disease, Colorado’s rainbow trout fishery could be primed for a big comeback. State researchers said they’re encouraged by the results of an ...

In the 1990s, rainbow trout in Colorado died. A lot of them. Millions of them. Whirling disease, an imported aquatic disease first discovered in Germany in 1893, left young trout swimming in circles.

Joel Evans has been fishing the same stretch of the Gunnison River in western Colorado for more than 40 years. Like most anglers in those parts, for him, one species of fish is king: the rainbow trout ...

SALIDA – Colorado fish lovers hunched over buckets at a hatchery, fingers numb inside soaked black wool mittens, scooping up shiny rainbow trout that have developed an ability to fight off the aquatic ...

(CBS4) --State researchers and biologists declared victory this week over whirling disease, a malady that decades ago sent Colorado's rainbow trout population into a tailspin. "The wild rainbows ...

Rainbow trout from the Gunnison River have developed an immunity to whirling disease. These fish are now being stocked in the Arkansas River near Salida in hopes they will reproduce. Colorado’s ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is hoping a rainbow trout strain developed in the Gunnison River can play an instrumental role in helping rainbows recover from the scourge of whirling disease. What the ...

Crusted in almonds and pan-fried. Cooked in a citrusy broth of tropical fruit. Slathered in hollandaise next to poached eggs and grits. Trout aren’t just found in Colorado’s rivers and lakes but are ...

After being devastated by whirling disease in the 1990s, Colorado’s rainbow trout populations are recovering in most major rivers, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said. “It’s been a long road, ...