Arizona Wildlife Conservation Strategy

Trout Creek Complex COA

Trout Creek Complex is a high priority water. Management recommendations include stocking native aquatic species as needed, monitoring native species populations, green sunfish presence, and habitat conditions. Successful green sunfish removal projects have been completed in East Ash Creek, Upper Ash Creek, and McGee Wash allowing native species to flourish. This complex has self-sustaining populations of roundtail chub, desert sucker, Sonora sucker, longfin dace, speckled dace, lowland leopard frogs, Sonora mud turtles, and black-necked gartersnakes. The healthy native fish populations in Trout Creek are due in part to 5 tributaries containing primarily native fishes that feed Trout Creek during high flows.

Watershed

Bill Williams River

Map

Conservation Potential

High

Management Priority

Native Aquatic Species Management (Native Fish-Self-sustaining); Sport Fish Recreation (Native Sport Fish-Self-sustaining)

Primary Strategy Species

Fish

Desert Sucker, Longfin Dace, Roundtail Chub, Sonora Sucker, Speckled Dace

Secondary Strategy Species

Fish

Roundtail Chub