04-14-2020, 03:48 PM
(04-14-2020, 02:11 PM)fishalot13 Wrote: I think the best fighting and the most fun hybrid fish to catch is a cuttbow! but not at the expence of losing the purity of the cutt! There is a lot of biology that goes into fisherys managment I wish people would understand.
I beieve NM only stocks sterile tripoid rainbows for this reason. Utah should do the same. My home stream in Utah has gotten stocked with tripoid rainbow about evey 7 or 8 years for a couple cycles. DWR doesn't even post this streams stocking on their website. While at first they are like catching annoying pest brookies constantly, they grow quickly. After 5 or 6 years the numbers really dwindle but you get very fat footbal like trout 18-26 inches that fight very hard. With the very rapid flowing stream they live in, they are a real challege to land. You can fish a dozen times where you know they tend to hang out at that time of year without hooking any. But when you find one, you usually find several others. I'd rank those days as my second favorite experience with flyfishing in Utah. And it doesn't put nearby pure strain Bonnevilles at risk of hybridization. This is especially important as DWRs fish barrier is just a small leap for these bows during runoff conditions.