02-05-2007, 03:54 PM
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Whatever.
Browns and smallies do fine together. There are tons of big browns in Jordanelle. It's unfortunate they were introduced, but brown trout are still the dominant predator over smallmouth bass.[/reply]
You're not serious, are you?
1st. Jordanelle has perch. Quite a few of them. It also has a regulation that prevents people from keeping larger smallmouth. This 1 thing is the ONLY reason that Jordanelle hasn't already crashed. Those larger smallmouth are keeping control of the perch -- which in turn keeps the brown's in Jordanelle with plenty of forage.
Grantsville -- Completely different ballgame here. No perch in this place. The brown trout get big in grantsville by eating crayfish...then they convert over to eating stocked RBT (Rainbow Trout)...SMB will compete with the smaller brown trout (BRT) for food (Crayfish). Thus preventing them (BRT) from reaching a size big enougth to eat RBT. Now, throw in the fact that the SMB will reproduce easily, and quickly. Recipe for disaster. The browns cannot, and will not, compete with the smallies.
Say goodbye to big brown trout in Granstville.
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Whatever.
Browns and smallies do fine together. There are tons of big browns in Jordanelle. It's unfortunate they were introduced, but brown trout are still the dominant predator over smallmouth bass.[/reply]
You're not serious, are you?
1st. Jordanelle has perch. Quite a few of them. It also has a regulation that prevents people from keeping larger smallmouth. This 1 thing is the ONLY reason that Jordanelle hasn't already crashed. Those larger smallmouth are keeping control of the perch -- which in turn keeps the brown's in Jordanelle with plenty of forage.
Grantsville -- Completely different ballgame here. No perch in this place. The brown trout get big in grantsville by eating crayfish...then they convert over to eating stocked RBT (Rainbow Trout)...SMB will compete with the smaller brown trout (BRT) for food (Crayfish). Thus preventing them (BRT) from reaching a size big enougth to eat RBT. Now, throw in the fact that the SMB will reproduce easily, and quickly. Recipe for disaster. The browns cannot, and will not, compete with the smallies.
Say goodbye to big brown trout in Granstville.
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