I was looking at the fish stocking report, trying to figure out where some tiger trout have been planted for me to go attempt to cross them off my species list. On the stocking report, there are several lakes up in the uintas listed as having more than a million fish stocked at once, all about 3/4 of an inch. Can this be accurate? it seems if it were a misprint, it would only list one or two lakes, instead of 8 or so. anyone heard of a massive stocking project?
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Sorry but can't pass up the chance to be a wise guy.
At 3/4 inch a lot of those fish are going to be chow for the bigger fish, and here it comes, You are going to have to use a real small hook to get that 3/4 incher.
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I'm sure a lot of them become food for the bigger fish.
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Think about the poor schlep that has to count them before they go in the truck.[
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Also remember that the survival rate for fish that size to make it to adulthood is in the singal digit percent range.
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He doesn't. He weighs them. Actually he weighs a few of them. Then he takes the tare weight of the holding tank and the net weight.
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Hope they all get ate by brook trout or die.
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Hope they all get ate by brook trout or die.
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I hope many of the brook trout (they are stunted in many of the lakes) choke on some of them and die, and that a goodly number of the tiger trout grow to be large fish.
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I was just kidding, I know what they base their numbers on.
Come on, lighten up.[
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[quote kentofnsl][quote brookieguy1]
Hope they all get ate by brook trout or die.
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I hope many of the brook trout (they are stunted in many of the lakes) choke on some of them and die, and that a goodly number of the tiger trout grow to be large fish.[/quote]They are supposed to be stocking sterile brook trout, not more, and more, and yawn, more of those worthless tiger trout.
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I enjoy catching both brook and tiger trout.
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Brook trout are an invasive species from the east coast, they should go back to New York like all the people from that state. Why don't you go catch brookies in Pennsylvania, I hear it's the brook trout capital of the world. Up with cutts, down with brooks!
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Only if I get to count them in the future. [crazy]. For a small fee of course.
One, two, three, four, five..... One, two, three, four, where was I?
Sorry, I didn't recognize the sarcasm font.
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Really? Cutts are pound for pound the worst fighting fish in the west.... there is a reason they aren't good at surviving on their own and need help from game and fish, it because they are weak.....give me a break....lol
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[quote outdoorsman1]Really? Cutts are pound for pound the worst fighting fish in the west.... [/quote]
We have walleye here in the west. I don't agree with your opinion.
[quote outdoorsman1]there is a reason they aren't good at surviving on their own and need help from game and fish, it because they are weak.....give me a break....lol[/quote]
Weak? How so?
Usually, cutts have problems where non-native invasive species (brown trout, brook trout, rainbow trout) have no natural systems in place to prevent reproduction. This has nothing to do with "weak" vs. "tough". It has to do with opportunity and another species exploiting an opportunity. That is not necessarily a characteristic of worth.
cutts are arguably the most beautiful trout in the west. So, therefore, I'll take the poor fighting stereotype over any number of other "better fighting" species. Thank you.
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Even if only 1/10 of 1 percent survive, that's still almost 2,000 fish, which is well above what they normally stock in those lakes. Not to mention the cost it must take to hatch and stock that many fish in that many lakes. Doesn't seem like a judicious use of resources even if they are being planted as feeders
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You have to consider the cost of raising them to a larger size, verses stocking them that small, there is a huge difference in cost. They do the same thing with wipers and walleye and they have found overall the cost is much cheaper to stock smaller fish. From the stats I've read there is usually a 1 to 7% survival rate for most fish when stocked that small.
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I've caught some seriously weak cutts in spots where the DWR plants a lot of sterile fish. Cleveland Reservoir, Huntington, Strawberry. The problem as I see it is that sterile fish will always have an advantage over native fish because their life cycle doesn't include making eggs and ignoring food a month out of the year, in addition to simply not dying from spawn stress.
Couple weeks ago I was catching some Colorado cutthroats in a managed stream on #4 test and they were some of the funnest fish I've caught. One of the fish busted a hook off of one of the trebles on my F-3 rapala, same fish fought and peeled line for at least 10 minutes. It was only a 12 inch fish but it had spirit.
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