05-04-2022, 03:42 PM
(05-04-2022, 12:13 AM)MACMAN Wrote: I really doubt they are going to kill off lake trout in the Gorge. It is world renowned for trophy lake trout. The water body is changing and always has. Do you remember the giant brown trout? Nature will take its course. It may not go in a direction that you want it to, but a balance will be found. It cannot be artificially created, just influenced. If the macs eat the lake out of house and home, they will crash and Kokes will flourish and the cycle will reset. One thing I’ve learned with fishing is to get while the getting is good, cause it’s probably not gonna last. If the sky was falling that bad, the f&g would go to a catch and kill reg and as mentioned before make it less expensive to go after them. Last year I spent like $150 to get the boat, myself and kids legal to fish across the state line for 6 hours. Brutal. I also don’t eat lake trout, but I know how to catch them- I have nothing to do with them when I am successful. There’s some changes that need to take place before I believe they are in full panic mode. Otherwise you might need to get your Kokes from Strawberry for a while, they are doing good in there.
Hi Macman,
If you read the Western Lake Trout Woes study you will take note that the Macs did not crash from starvation. They just quit growing. There are some cool pics. I hope the experience from the other great fisheries in that study will help guide us at the Gorge.
The USU study predicts EXACTLY what has happened at the Gorge. It is a history lesson and a look into the future backed by data. Some have discounted the data as old and the processes are outdated. But the facts are, what they showed us in 1992 is what happened. I really hope you and others will read them and come to their own conclusions.