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anglers, as a group, are renowned for their propensity to bend, extend, and fracture any factual basis of fish size, we found the greatest reputed size attributable to yellowfin trout is that given by Charlie Myers, the Denver Post outdoor writer, who wrote on Twin Lakes in the late spring 1981 issue of Angler magazine: "The native fish here was the yellowfin cutthroat, a species that grew to over 50 pounds. But the successive introduction of competitive species - lake trout, landlocked salmon, sturgeon, brown trout, brook trout and rainbows - and the indiscriminate harvesting by unscrupulous anglers decimated the cutthroat." ), This reference is also our only citation (although lacking documentation) to sturgeon introductions in Colorado. The yel10wfin trout was assumed to be endemic only to Twin Lakes, although Gordon Land, the state Fish Commissioner, is quoted in the March 8, 1890 issue of Field and Farm, a journal published in Denver, that he found yellowfin trout to occur in all tributaries to the ~pper Arkansas River and he had taken spawn from yellowfin trout from Chalk Creek. An interesting fact is that we could find no reference to a yellowfin trout or any exceptionally large trout in Twin Lakes before 1885. In the August 3, 1876 issue of Forest and Stream, S. M. Derry recounted tales of Twin Lakes fishing. He wrote that on some days anglers can catch 200 to 300 trout each and in June, 1874 he and his son caught 1,045 trout from Twin Lakes in three days. There is no mention in Derry's account of large specimens or an indication that more than a single form of trout was caught. In Charles Hallock's Sportsman's Gazateer and General Guide published in 1877, it is 10