05-03-2022, 06:34 PM
(05-03-2022, 06:05 PM)kentofnsl Wrote: I had already read much of both studies, but went back and read more of the Western Lake Trout Woes study. I think that there would be a major uprising, from the diehard lake trout anglers, if an effort was made to remove the lake trout. I remember when they first started encouraging anglers to catch and keep the smaller lake trout. Unless my memory fails me (which would not be a big surprise) the initial reaction from anglers was that all lake trout should be released and that all lake trout would grow large if they were not kept.
Thanks so much for reading through them. I remember 10 years ago a guide was successful catching 20# fish in the south Buckboard area. Now the guides are catching 40# fish regularly in that area. And the koke fishing has dramatically declined in that same time period. These studies and my own personal experience suggests the lake trout will eat themselves out of house and home then get skinny and their numbers will drop. So it won't matter in the end, it will just take longer and the lake will end up being just like Fremont Lake, Jackson Lake and many others.
10 years ago a guy could catch hundreds of Burbot on their spawning beds in November. Ask the local guides what their success rate was this year. I am not s scientist, but I noticed tube jigs colored like a Burbot started being more successful 10 years ago.