Gorge Macs Need to Go

[ducksfresh]

As far as the content of my post....Fishing is in not the answer. We won't be able to affect their numbers. It will take much more than that. My hope is to help Tony Valdez start the conversation.

I hope you will at least read the Western Lake Trout Woes study.

Respectfully,
Mike Fresh

If fishing is not the answer, what then will make a difference?

After much more research than I have put into this, including the Western Lake Trout Woes study, (attached here) Tony Valdez's statement to me was "They have to go!". Knowing that his family, especially his son TJ benefits from guiding services chasing the big Macs.

The Western Lake Trout Woes study suggests lots of different methods that have been used at many famous Kokanee/Lake Trout fisheries. They include commercial removal, removal of slot limits, introducing sterile Macs, poising or sterilizing of spawning beds, bounties instead of tagged fish prizes and more. This study describes all the major Western fisheries and what each of them did to try to recover not just Kokanee but other trout species. I think they need to include them all!!

Once again please at least read the Western Lake Trout Woes study. The USU study is like reading a Nostradamus prediction come true for Flaming Gorge, backed by biomass studies. The three agencies, Utah, Wyoming and the Feds, determined that they could not plant enough rainbows to keep up with Mac predation to sustain a quality rainbow fishery. They plant rainbows to feed the macs too.
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