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Lightfoot, DeYoungFisherman and I went to East Canyon this weekend. Got into some nice, FAT rainbows, and had a really fun time. In fact, most we talked to had enjoyed some action too.
We kept a few for some fillets, and C.S.I. DYF (Catch Scene Investigator) did some searching through their stomach contents. And indeed found some packed-in crappie fry in the trout. I saw a school come through on the finder, and dropped an Aqua-Vu to see what it was when I could get no bites. Schools of fry.
We've been catching a few crappie over the past couple of years up there, and apparantly they are multiplying well. Took a few pictures, and while it's kind of hard to tell from them, close examination makes a positive id possible. To pry open their mouths with the point of knife makes the little mini-crappies look quite cool.
And those bloated rainbows are eating pretty well on them, too.
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Nice bit of investigation! Poor little crappies....
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do you think that ec will become a good crappie fishery or are the crappie just food for the trout??? it would be nice to have a lake close to salt lake that has beg crappie like pineview
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I don't know. The DWR says "bucket biologists" dumped them in there. I doubt there's enough brushy structure in there to really offer them the habitat they'd thrive in. But they could sure make for a great forage fish!
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I think it will become cycles. Crappies alone in a lake are cyclic in nature. Trout thrown into the mix will be interesting. They really grow when they eat minnows instead of bugs. But when the Crappie beat them to the bugs they will starve.
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Very interesting stuff right there.I have seen them full of perch in other waters but not crappie
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THose are some fat bows . Good to see they are getting fed .
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Cool detective work! Did you try any crappie-like jigs?

Any anchor worms on the trout? The ones in the sink look pretty clean.

Where/what/when for them fatsies?
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Small tubes worked well, but so did Rat Finkees. Until the schools of fry showed up. We couldn't compete with them. My son-in-law had a small Gitz-It that was the best imitation, and he caught fish more consistently all day.
Very few anchor worm scars on the fish. A lot less than I've seen in years past.
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Were you at the boat ramp? I just might head up there tomorrow or Wednesday.
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Reports from close by the boat ramp have been on "planter" rainbows. We went up that northwest arm.
Good luck!
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Here it is . . .
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Wow, those are some really fat trout. Great job.
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Uinta,

You must have an understanding wife if she lets you gut fish in her sink.
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Understanding, yes. But I only fillet in the sink. I don't make a monsterous mess or she would kill me!!!
She does like to fish, too.
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those crappie will make great bass food[cool]
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Just cant leave it alone can ya?
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" those crappie will make great bass food"

That is a pretty exciting thing. I didn't catch a lot of SMB out of there last year, but the ones I did were all pretty big & fat and feisty. I hope they gorge themselves. :-)
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