I just spent three days fishing a couple of rivers in the buckhorn wilderness.One river has signs all over it calling for the carefull release of all dolly/bull trout.I did not catch a dolly,trout or baby anything in this stream.fished it for two days and covered a guess of 8+ miles.not one fish.

Sunday I jump over to the other fork and first cast catch a nice dolly. for the next six hours I proceed to catch lots of fish of all kinds.

Not all streams contain dollys.But when I fish the ones that do, I worry when I do not catch any.Dollys are extremely aggressive.To me they are one of the best indicator of the overall health of a stream.Lots of dollys means lots of smolt and spawning fish, in turn a healthy pop all the way around.