Years ago a biologist found a few wild trout, I believe this was in 1998. They were brown trout. The Louisville TU chapter and the Northern Kentucky fly fishers assisted in a day of tagging brown trout for release at the Wolf Creek hatchery so that they could have a better idea of wild trout. The problem was the biologist in charge of the project left KDFWR for the US Fish and Wildlife Service shortly after that.

One biologist that I have talked to said if conditions were just right, natural reproduction could occur, but everything would have to be perfect. With more stable water levels due to the repair work on the dam, it could be possible for a few trout to spawn and fry to hatch, but not really something you can count on.

All of the trout in kentucky waters comes from the Wolf Creek national hatchery.