02-22-2013, 01:22 AM
[quote TubeDude][#0000ff][cool]I'm witchoo. Can't have it both ways...lots of fish and big fish too. If the chubs are eliminated...along with all the current crop of big fish...there will be far fewer big fish in the future. What do people think the truly BIG fish are eating? Zooplankton? Not. They eat meat...as in chubs...lots of chubs. Virtually every big tiger trout (and cutt) taken from Scofield has a belly full of chubkind.
Eliminating chubs will make more micro trout chow available but after the trout reach the upper teen incher size they will slow down in growth and will die before becoming 2 footers.
And, on another note, walleyes might not be good candidates for Scofield but keep yer eyes open for the possibility of sterile saugeyes being introduced in chub-laden waters in the future. I heerd tell...
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Well said! I just recently started targeting Tigers this past year...and they have quickly become one of my favorite (if not my favorite) species to fish for. These fish are vacuum cleaners, they slurp and suck up everything and anything that swims.
There could be hundreds (probably much more) of 10-15lb Tigers in that lake... and those fish have a bodacious appetite. I was fishing a tiger lake this fall (I won't mention the name, but feel free to guess[laugh]) and I caught a 14-15" cutthroat that had it's tail fin completely digested, and big teeth scrapes and marks showing what happened. I was like WOW!
And again, this fall, I caught a 25" Tiger with a 10-12" sucker stuffed in her throat... and she still hit my 5-6" bait. Now that is an impressive species! It would be very interesting to see a study done on just how much mass (other fish) these big 15-20lb tigers eat. They definitely have that brown trout gene in em.
Eliminating chubs will make more micro trout chow available but after the trout reach the upper teen incher size they will slow down in growth and will die before becoming 2 footers.
And, on another note, walleyes might not be good candidates for Scofield but keep yer eyes open for the possibility of sterile saugeyes being introduced in chub-laden waters in the future. I heerd tell...
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Well said! I just recently started targeting Tigers this past year...and they have quickly become one of my favorite (if not my favorite) species to fish for. These fish are vacuum cleaners, they slurp and suck up everything and anything that swims.
There could be hundreds (probably much more) of 10-15lb Tigers in that lake... and those fish have a bodacious appetite. I was fishing a tiger lake this fall (I won't mention the name, but feel free to guess[laugh]) and I caught a 14-15" cutthroat that had it's tail fin completely digested, and big teeth scrapes and marks showing what happened. I was like WOW!
And again, this fall, I caught a 25" Tiger with a 10-12" sucker stuffed in her throat... and she still hit my 5-6" bait. Now that is an impressive species! It would be very interesting to see a study done on just how much mass (other fish) these big 15-20lb tigers eat. They definitely have that brown trout gene in em.