browns at gorge

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[cool][#0000ff]The story of the browns in Da Gorge is one of predator-prey relationships. In the glory days of big browns and wierd guys who camped in caves around the lake and fished at night in brutal cold from a tin boat for those monsters...there were bajillions of chubs in the lake. Chubs, chubs everywhere. Your boat almost got stuck in the mass of chubs crowding around the docks. The browns got big and fat slurping down a a diet of easy to munch chubs.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Too many predators in the lake started to reduce the numbers of chubs and once the balance tipped...and the chubs couldn't outproduce the predation...chubs virtually disappeared from the food chain.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Macks switched to planter rainbows and kokanee. The browns were not as adaptable. There are still plenty of browns in the lake, for not being stocked and managed, but they tend to grow only to "average" sizes typical of other multi-species waters.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Too bad the browns can't develop a taste for burbot. Full circle karma.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Glad you liked the elephant joke. Y'know, in Africa they used to be able to harvest more elephants, and the indigenous peoples became skilled at creating different items from different parts of the elephant...both for personal use and for sale to the tourists. The tails became ceremonial fly whisks, the legs were taxidermied (legal word???) into umbrella stands, golf bags, etc. Of course we all know about ivory. What a lot of people don't know is about the trunk. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Do YOU know what they get from an elephant's trunk?[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]A. Two six-foot boogers[/#0000ff]
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