On the chilly morning of Oct 5, Dan, Jacob, and Tyler, from the Department of Wildlife brought the boat up from Pueblo for a little fishing. Joining them for the annual Fall fish survey was Custer County’s local Game Warden, Justin Krall. Every year, a series of Gillnets are dropped into the lakes of Colorado including our own Lake DeWeese. These nets are left in the water overnight to trap passing fish. In the morning the nets are pulled in and everything with gills is weighed and measured. This gives the Department of Wildlife an estimate of the biodiversity within the Lake and what game fish need to be brought in from hatcheries next spring. “This is the lowest I have seen the lake in…
