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hey guys i saw this on the news last night about the spirit lake poisoning and i thought it was interesting to hear about what they are doing. after 3 weeks they will restock with tiger trout cause they say they are no threat to the colorado cuttys since they are steril, and they will restock cutts in 2014
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Does anyone know what the other lakes were that were poisoned? There are a bunch up in that area obviously, so I'm just curious which others were affected.
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includes nearly 8 miles of streams as well as Spirit, Jessen, Tamarack, Gail, Judy, Columbine, Lost and Hidden lakes.
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Wow, that's too bad, but makes sense I guess to hit everything in that basin if they're going to do it. Well, I guess we just look forward to native fish and some aggressive Tigers down the road.
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It better work. Judy had some chunky brook trout!
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My question is in stead of just poisoning a lake why don't they first open it up to anglers with a keep all limit you want limit to at least put those fish to use? Even if they did that the week before wouldn't that reduce the waste?
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Hey, I am just trying to figure out the WHY? If we are going to reintroduce native species, what about wolfs, grizzlies? Also, most of these lakes, and I am not sure of these particular ones, but most of the Uinta lakes were fishless, just bugs, slamanders, toads, frogs. No doubt the streams had Colorados, and to get there, I guess the lakes need to be the same. Again Why?
Are they going to plant tigers in the whole basin or just Spirit Lake? Tigers will certainly out compete the cuts for food.
Seems like a whole lot of trading resources for small if any gain. They did this quite sometime ago in the Atwood basin, which was crazy. So the question, how have the Cuts done since then, compared to what was before?
I am not looking forward to a bunch of large headed, snake bodied fish, hope for better. In the lakes, it is a very season, and in many cases a very sterile environment.
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