02-20-2013, 10:17 PM
That's what most people don't get...a treatment would do a couple things: 1) it would eliminate competition and allow more trout to grow to large sizes 2) it would give trout a headstart on chubs and allow more of them to begin utilizing the resource 3) it would help create a better balance between chubs and predators.
Stocking a whole bunch more tiger trout probably won't improve the fishery or increase the number of trophy tigers...the problem of small fish getting large enough to start preying on chubs would only be exacerbated.
The downside to a treatment would obviously be that any trophy trout in there now would be killed...but there would be no reason to believe that another couldn't be grown quickly and perhaps even a larger number of them.
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Stocking a whole bunch more tiger trout probably won't improve the fishery or increase the number of trophy tigers...the problem of small fish getting large enough to start preying on chubs would only be exacerbated.
The downside to a treatment would obviously be that any trophy trout in there now would be killed...but there would be no reason to believe that another couldn't be grown quickly and perhaps even a larger number of them.
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