08-05-2019, 08:26 PM
The days of loads of rainbows kind of ended in a two-stage evolution of the management of the reservoir that started with the perch wiping out the chubs and the lake trout turning to rainbows for forage and then more recently culminating with the stocking of Kokanee and the subsequent decrease in rainbow trout stocking. Overall, I think the changes are good, but those looking for rainbows will surely have a more difficult time. On the flip side, more lake trout and spake should be able to get through the bottleneck to becoming trophy fish and the Kokanee are filling a formerly underutilized niche within the lake. I believe the apex of Fish Lake’s production capability as a fishery is in the near future and it is quite possibly going to be better than ever in the near future!
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