03-13-2014, 04:31 PM
[quote brookieguy1][quote wormandbobber][quote MADDOGG] FYI, the trout that the fish and game plant are all sterile....[/quote]
Not true…not even close! Many of the trout the state stocks are actually fertile….including some rainbows, all brookies, all browns, all lake trout, and all cutthroat.[/quote]I hope you're wrong about the brook trout all being fertile. I've heard from a reliable DWR source that most brook trout now stocked in the Uintas are sterile along with several southern waters. I sure hope that's the case, especially on Boulder where tiger trout should be being phased out with sterile brook trout replacing them.[/quote]
You are correct…I misspoke. Not all brook trout are fertile. But, just to make things clear, triploid brook trout are not 100% infertile either. Stocking them is a very dangerous thing in some places…
…that is why tiger trout will NOT be phased out on the Boulder and why some lakes will not get stocked with "sterile" brook trout.
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Not true…not even close! Many of the trout the state stocks are actually fertile….including some rainbows, all brookies, all browns, all lake trout, and all cutthroat.[/quote]I hope you're wrong about the brook trout all being fertile. I've heard from a reliable DWR source that most brook trout now stocked in the Uintas are sterile along with several southern waters. I sure hope that's the case, especially on Boulder where tiger trout should be being phased out with sterile brook trout replacing them.[/quote]
You are correct…I misspoke. Not all brook trout are fertile. But, just to make things clear, triploid brook trout are not 100% infertile either. Stocking them is a very dangerous thing in some places…
…that is why tiger trout will NOT be phased out on the Boulder and why some lakes will not get stocked with "sterile" brook trout.
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