09-20-2017, 03:50 AM
[quote TubeDude][#0000FF]I got to thinking about your mention of early explorers seeing native Americans catching and processing "carp". You surmised that they were probably mistaken in their species ID and that the fish were likely "pikeminnows". I suspect they were more likely suckers or redhorse. Many native Americans harvested suckers as they made their annual spawning runs upstream from lakes...as they used to do in Utah Lake. And their puckery lips could have easily been mistaken for carp mouths. But just my guess.
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I was recently reading an account of the Hole in the Rock pioneer expedition. In it, there is an account of members of the advance party catching 7-10 lb fish they called "white salmon". Obviously, salmon weren't in the Colorado river in 1879 and these fish were in reality pikeminnows or suckers. Modern readers probably shouldn't expect a high level of accuracy in fish ID from explorers and pioneers of that era. It does make for interesting reading however.
Nevertheless, large trout in UL during pioneer times is a verified fact as discussed by others and they even persisted into the 1930's.
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I was recently reading an account of the Hole in the Rock pioneer expedition. In it, there is an account of members of the advance party catching 7-10 lb fish they called "white salmon". Obviously, salmon weren't in the Colorado river in 1879 and these fish were in reality pikeminnows or suckers. Modern readers probably shouldn't expect a high level of accuracy in fish ID from explorers and pioneers of that era. It does make for interesting reading however.
Nevertheless, large trout in UL during pioneer times is a verified fact as discussed by others and they even persisted into the 1930's.
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