05-24-2012, 04:28 AM
Flygoddess you're right. I majored as a fisheries biologist and brook trout are more cannibal as a fish species. Yellowstone cutts and rainbows (not all subspecies) tend to eat less fish than brooks and browns. I have suggested that something needs to be done about the size of the fish in Henrys. A few years ago I suggested on this website that it would be nice to increase the limit at Henrys to three fish. Wow!! I got jumped by several members with comments such as "how many trophies do you want anyway!"
The Idaho Department of Fish and Game has recognized there is a problem now with too many fish in Henry's Lake. When they recently restored access to some of the rivers tributary to Henry's Lake, the natural spawning of the cutts shot up and are now adding a greater portion of wild fish naturally spawned to the lake. To correct the over population the Dept. will be stocking less hatchery spawned fish. With hatchery spawned fish the Dept had more control over the numbers of fish stalked in the lake and could control the quantity of fish to increase fish size. In the 1950 and 60's the average weight of henry's fish was about two pounds. After that the size dropped to 1 1/2 lbs which indicated they were stalking more fish to improve the catch rate per hour to keep the fisherman happy but the fish decreased in size. Hope this helps.
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The Idaho Department of Fish and Game has recognized there is a problem now with too many fish in Henry's Lake. When they recently restored access to some of the rivers tributary to Henry's Lake, the natural spawning of the cutts shot up and are now adding a greater portion of wild fish naturally spawned to the lake. To correct the over population the Dept. will be stocking less hatchery spawned fish. With hatchery spawned fish the Dept had more control over the numbers of fish stalked in the lake and could control the quantity of fish to increase fish size. In the 1950 and 60's the average weight of henry's fish was about two pounds. After that the size dropped to 1 1/2 lbs which indicated they were stalking more fish to improve the catch rate per hour to keep the fisherman happy but the fish decreased in size. Hope this helps.
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