Yellowstone national park - part 4. - Fishing

Yellowstone Park is managed as a natural area to protect nature. Angling has been a major visitor activity for over a century.
- There are twelve native species including three sport fish: cutthroat, Arctic grayling, and mountain white fish
- Five non-native species and one hybrid: brook trout, brown trout, lake trout, rainbow trout, lake chub, cutthroat/rainbow trout hybrid
- More than 220 lakes comprised approximately 107,000 surface acres in Yellowstone, 94 percent of which can be attributed to Yellowstone, Shoshone, Lewis and Heart lakes.
- 1000 streams make up more than 2650 miles of running water
- Cutthroat trout are a primary food for bald eagles, ospreys, pelicans, otters and grizzly bears.

The native species in Yellowstone are:

Native Fish in Yellowstone

Arctic Grayling

Longnose Sucker

 Mottled Sculpin

 Mountain Sucker

 Mountain White Fish

 Redside Shiner

 Snake River Finespotted Cutthroat Trout

 Speckled Dace

 Utah Chub

 Utah Sucker

 Westlope Cutthroat Trout

 Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout

 Longnose Dace

Yellowstone is where two great rivers originate. The Snake heads to the Pacific via the Columbia River. The Madison River is headwater of the Missouri River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico. 

One of most well known fish in Yellowstone called Cutthroat Trout.