BTook the kids up to Bear Lake Dec. 5 for some fun and one of them hooked into a 23" cutthroat. Near its dorsal fin there was a 2" yellow 18awg wire hanging out. It appeared to be an antenna for a radio tracking device. This was a first for me.
Anyhow, all the fins were intact so he went back in to get caught another day.
BTW, I think the whitefish knew a storm was coming because we soaked worms and jigged all along Cisco beach in 5-15' water all day and all we caught were cutts and carp . Could be that we just didn't know what we were doing too. We still had a great time though.
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Thanks for the report Bvs, sounds like you and the kids had some fun, too bad the whitefish did not want to play. If Bearlakefishguy does not respond to your post you should send him a PM and ask him about the radio tag. Or consider editing you post and adding Bear lake to the subject(Bear lake radio tagged fish), I'm sure that would get his attenion, just a thought.
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Thanks, I added "Bear Lake" to the title.
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it is just a tag. did it have numbers on it ? if it's the same as FG it is a yellow tag with numbers you write down the numbers and call the game and fish and thay tell you about that fish from its tag date age size all that good stuff. salmon and steelhead hatcery fish will have a pec fin cut and thay will have a small chip in there head and that is how thay track steelhead but never seen one in wyoming or utah fish.
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What? Scott has radio tags on the fish in Bear Lake? Screw my fish finder, I am just going to out with him and his transmitter looking for fish. Just kidding [:p]
When I assisted Scott a few years ago on the gill net survey he added numbered wire tags to all the macs and Cutts caught in the nets. I was amazed how deep those wires are put and how it doesnt affect the fish. We actually brought in a mac with a tag that day. When he pulled the info up on his computer, he said the mac was over 25 years old.
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over 25 years!! and how much did it weigh?
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Sorry, but I just noticed this post. The "wire" you saw was defintely a tag. Its a yellow, plastic tag that looks similar to a dart with a barb. Each tag is individually numbered and if you write down the tag number I can let you know about the fish (like Fishley indicated). As far a radio tag, there are a few fish swimming around with them in Bear Lake. They would have a single, thin wire about 4" or so long, coming out of their belly area. The wire is the antennae and the tag is surgically implanted into the abdominal cavity. The tags are battery powered and by now the batteries are long dead. The study was fairly short term (a few months). Bigger battery=longer batter life, but bigger batter=bigger tag. We also have a few fish that are tagged with PIT (passive integrated transponder) tags. These tags are likely to never be noticed by anlgers. They are about the size of a small, oblong pill and are injected with a syringe-type plunger into the abdomen area and have no external antennae, scars from operation, etc. Anyway, next time note the tag number and drop me an email or send it to the address that is printed on tag.
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If I remember right it was only like 7 lbs.
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