Hayspur Hatchery

71 US Hwy. 20
Bellevue, ID 83313
(208) 788-2847

Hayspur Hatchery is located in Blaine County, approximately 40 miles south of Sun Valley on Loving Creek. To reach the Hayspur Hatchery travel North on Highway 95 from Twin Falls approximately 50 miles to the intersection of Highway 95 and U.S. 20. Turn east on Highway 20, travel approximately 6 miles to the entrance of the hatchery. The property is an odd shaped 105.12-acre parcel.

Site Overview
Fish culture facilities include an incubation building housing Heath stacks, isolation incubators, moist egg chiller, early rearing troughs, a hatchery building with 20 early rearing tanks, 12 covered 24-foot circular ponds, 6 small fingerling tanks, and 6 large raceways. Water sources include the covered Hayspur spring that supplies 3.0 to 5.5 cubic feet per second (cfs), three pumped artesian wells producing 5.0 cfs, and up to 18 cfs of Loving Creek water. The spring and wellwater are both considered specific pathogen free water supplies.

Visitors
Hatchery personnel maintain an on-site public campground, a general season pond fishery, and a trophy stream fishery, and many people visit, camp, and/or fish Gaver Lagoon or Loving Creek on the hatchery property. Gaver Lagoon continues to be a popular fishery for a variety of anglers, including the physically challenged and children.

Species Production
Hayspur Fish Hatchery is a license-funded resident salmonid broodstock facility. The mission of the hatchery is production of eyed eggs. The 2000 season marked a mission change to produce triploid eyed eggs. Two captive rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss broodstocks and one west slope cutthroat Oncorhynchus clarki lewisi broodstock are maintained on station. These are the Hayspur strain, Kamloops strain, and westslope cutthroat trout strain from Conner Lake, British Columbia, Canada.