04-01-2008, 02:50 PM
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And the DWR officer said they had put hold over splake and brooks and lakers in some of the ponds like Willow for the winter fishing...[/reply]
Hate to call you a liar, but the DWR officer wouldn't have said this because the Utah DWR doesn't have brood splake in their hatcheries...the DWR doesn't have any need to holdover splake in a hatchery because they can't reproduce. Brood stock are fish that have been released because they are no longer going to be used to produce more hatchery fish.
Besides a brook trout, the only other possibility for that fish is it to be a lake trout...which it definitely is not based on spotting patterns. The fish is a brook trout.
Right now, I keep reading reports of people catching browns from Piute...most of these browns are brood stock as well.
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And the DWR officer said they had put hold over splake and brooks and lakers in some of the ponds like Willow for the winter fishing...[/reply]
Hate to call you a liar, but the DWR officer wouldn't have said this because the Utah DWR doesn't have brood splake in their hatcheries...the DWR doesn't have any need to holdover splake in a hatchery because they can't reproduce. Brood stock are fish that have been released because they are no longer going to be used to produce more hatchery fish.
Besides a brook trout, the only other possibility for that fish is it to be a lake trout...which it definitely is not based on spotting patterns. The fish is a brook trout.
Right now, I keep reading reports of people catching browns from Piute...most of these browns are brood stock as well.
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