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-33- <br />Table 12. Total harvest and mean size of trout from the Flaming <br />Gorge tailwaters, 1977. <br />Species Harvest Mean Size <br />Number K 9_ mar <br />Rainbow trout 28,181 8,274 293.6 299.5 <br />Cutthroat trout, 824 473 573.8 378.5 <br />Snake R. <br />Cutthroat trout, 45 44 982. Oa 440.0a <br />Yellowstone <br />Brown trout 29 19 641.0 394.0 <br />Total 29,079 8,810 <br />aMean size of Yellowstone cutthroat trout was based on only a single <br />individual <br />Fishing pressure was concentrated on the upper portion of the Green <br />River. Raft fishermen expended 20,550 man-hr from the tailrace to Little <br />Hole, but only 4,548 man-hr from below Little Hole to Brown's Park. Shore <br />fishing pressure followed the same pattern, with 16,191, 12,172, and 8,176 <br />man-hr expended at the tailrace, Little Hole, and Brown's Park, respec- <br />tively. <br />Summer months of June, July and August sustained the heaviest <br />fishing pressure, and shore fishing pressure slightly exceeded raft <br />fishing pressure in all months except July (Table 13).