North 40 Fly Shop eMagazine February 2016 | Page 39

The Bunker Hill Strike occurs,
and very soon, the large
abundance of cutthroat trout
from Lake Coeur d’Alene
is being harvested and
transported to the mining
camps to help feed the influx
of miners.

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Captain Mullen describes
Lake Coeur d’Alene as a
noble sheet of water filled
with an abundance of
delicious salmon trout a.k.a.
westslope cutthroat trout.
(Ellis 1932)

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1858

1889

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1885

The Idaho Department of
Fish and Game is established.
Charles Arbuckel assumes
head position, and is credited
in his first year for stopping
the shipment of game and
trout from Idaho to other
states for sale on the open
market, as 50,000-90,000lbs
of fish were being removed
from Henrys Lake every
winter.

Late 1800's

A severe mine pollution
totally takes out the South
Fork of the Coeur d’Alene
River as a productive habitat
while the main Coeur d’Alene
River and Lake Coeur d’Alene
are also being adversely
affected.