Bully Bully

[SocialMisfit88]

Post up all those pics of the wonderful alberta bull trout!!!!

[ESOXangler]

yup thats a beauty!!!!!!!!

[SonnyJ]

Post up all those pics of the wonderful alberta bull trout!!!!

Ok...lol

[BeeGuy]

http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/gg523/elbee69/photo4.jpg

http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/gg523/elbee69/photo.jpg

http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/gg523/elbee69/photo3.jpg

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[SonnyJ]

Nice smallmouth bully...lol.:)

[BeeGuy]

Bully #2 is from juniper beach.

[Steven Noel]

Nothing big, but I fish small streams.

http://i850.photobucket.com/albums/ab70/Steven_Noel/IMG_3821.jpg

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[BeeGuy]

Nice colours. I've never caught one with anything but a touch of pink.

I should have a few more pics from the beaver/Holmes river in bc and sadly never took any pics from the Ram or the 3 footers from the flathead.

[bearb8er]

They're ugly compared to a brookie - specially a fall brookie! And dumb as a sack of hammers. Anyone can catch bulls.

[KCL]

They're ugly compared to a brookie - specially a fall brookie! And dumb as a sack of hammers. Anyone can catch bulls.

Thanks for posting, very good information, oh wait, no it's not.

[BeeGuy]

They're ugly compared to a brookie - specially a fall brookie! And dumb as a sack of hammers. Anyone can catch bulls.

Kinda like a pike or walleye, but better looking and more interesting from a natural history perspective.

[SonnyJ]

Thanks for posting, very good information, oh wait, no it's not.

lol...anyways I already posted a pic but for you guys who never ate one I can tell you that they ain't so good..kinda like lake trout or should I say wet sawdust..:(

And before anyone gets thier knickers in a bunch I'm talking early 80's when they were still legal to keep.:)

[BeeGuy]

Still legal in bc, ate one not too long ago.

They are like most fish, the quality is dependent on where they are caught and the time of year.

[SonnyJ]

They are like most fish, the quality is dependent on where they are caught and the time of year.


Yeah you're right.The one I ate was from the McCloud river in the dog days of august.

[tight line]

heres a good one! love catchin bullies, so aggresive! Dumb as a sack of hammers what a jack*****, you tell those fish ya bear baitin douche...

[bearb8er]

Well I'll say sorry to everyone but "tight" seeing as he has to get personal - but I just couldn't resist. You see bears aren't the only thing I like baiting. You'll have to admit it was as easy as dropping a fly in front of a bull. Nothing to getting a rise and a strike! Was just haveing some fun at your expense.

I honestly would rather catch a brookie cause even mature bulls I find are pretty easy to catch. Just like some got upset I get upset with this new brookie "kill licence" on some of the southern watersheds. I hate "management" that values one fish species over another. I can say I've never seen it work anywhere it is tried. So this little roll cast into the eddy was as much a reaction to that as anything.

[Bhflyfisher]

Well I'll say sorry to everyone but "tight" seeing as he has to get personal - but I just couldn't resist. You see bears aren't the only thing I like baiting. You'll have to admit it was as easy as dropping a fly in front of a bull. Nothing to getting a rise and a strike! Was just haveing some fun at your expense.

I honestly would rather catch a brookie cause even mature bulls I find are pretty easy to catch. Just like some got upset I get upset with this new brookie "kill licence" on some of the southern watersheds. I hate "management" that values one fish species over another. I can say I've never seen it work anywhere it is tried. So this little roll cast into the eddy was as much a reaction to that as anything.

Do you understand the entire problem with the watersheds and brookies? I'd be pretty worried as an albertan fisherman, if native populations of cutthroat and bull trout were being displaced and eaten out of house and home by brookies. The brookies hybridize with the bulls, creating a fish that doesnt reproduce very well later on, hurting the gene pool and just simply lowering the reproduction rate. The brookies also can reproduce at a smaller size/younger age, meaning the population explodes compared to cutthroat and bull trout. Also brookies spawn in the fall along with bull trout causing the first issue i stated which in turn excludes them of death/poor survival rate caused by run off. Cutthroats spawn in the spring, and their survival rate is much lower per every year they spawn while the conditions are awful. Its not favoring one species over the other, but if you're against it the elimination of brookies in native trout waters, you're favoring brook trout over cutthroat and bull trout. To put it simply, brook trout are invasive. There are so many stunted populations of brook trout every where. Eliminating them from creeks that they have taken over, is a GOOD thing. They are a nuisance.

My rant is over.

[Guitarplayingfish]

Do you understand the entire problem with the watersheds and brookies? I'd be pretty worried as an albertan fisherman, if native populations of cutthroat and bull trout were being displaced and eaten out of house and home by brookies. The brookies hybridize with the bulls, creating a fish that doesnt reproduce very well later on, hurting the gene pool and just simply lowering the reproduction rate. The brookies also can reproduce at a smaller size/younger age, meaning the population explodes compared to cutthroat and bull trout. Also brookies spawn in the fall along with bull trout causing the first issue i stated which in turn excludes them of death/poor survival rate caused by run off. Cutthroats spawn in the spring, and their survival rate is much lower per every year they spawn while the conditions are awful. Its not favoring one species over the other, but if you're against it the elimination of brookies in native trout waters, you're favoring brook trout over cutthroat and bull trout. To put it simply, brook trout are invasive. There are so many stunted populations of brook trout every where. Eliminating them from creeks that they have taken over, is a GOOD thing. They are a nuisance.

My rant is over.


I agree... Study was done last year at the UofL on brook/bull fry and which out-competes in different scenarios... Brooks destroy... literally eatting small Bullies out of house and home... Taking them out and helping our native fish population recover is what should be done..

[calgarysledguy]

Nice Bulls.

Ok ill post mine as well. Todays Bull trout.




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[tight line]

Naw im not upset just figured id trash talk the trash talker, catchin a big brookie definately takes more skill! Ive had giant bulls in smsll creeks come up and look me in the eye... Lol wouldnt touch anything, but little cutthroats if you hooked one! Think people should cut them some slack and give them a little credit! They are aggresive, not dumb!!!;)

[dryflyguy]

Fishing for Cutts and Bulls in SW BC. Not mine, my uncle caught this one, but it's the biggest Bull Trout I've ever seen.
http://i.imgur.com/Ud3Nu.jpg (http://imgur.com/Ud3Nu)

[nekred]

When I was younger I caught a huge Bull Trout in BC... at that time they were still considered a Dolly Varden as in that watershed both are found.

We loped haed and tail off and cooked him in the BBQ basted like a turkey with brown rice and seasoning....

Yum... Slurp... Gone even by those who don't care to eat a lot of fish!...

[tight line]

Well I'll say sorry to everyone but "tight" seeing as he has to get personal - but I just couldn't resist. You see bears aren't the only thing I like baiting. You'll have to admit it was as easy as dropping a fly in front of a bull. Nothing to getting a rise and a strike! Was just haveing some fun at your expense.

I honestly would rather catch a brookie cause even mature bulls I find are pretty easy to catch. Just like some got upset I get upset with this new brookie "kill licence" on some of the southern watersheds. I hate "management" that values one fish species over another. I can say I've never seen it work anywhere it is tried. So this little roll cast into the eddy was as much a reaction to that as anything.
But you have to admit as well that trashing someones thread just to "bait"someone into saying something... DOUCHE move! Lets see all your big bully pics if they are so easy to catch bud;)

[Bhflyfisher]

There have been plenty of scenarios that i have experienced where you can drift a fly past a bull 1000 times and he just will not take it. It is the weirdest thing.

Bull vs Brook trout debate, Unless you're talking BIG brook trout, Small brookies easily come to being the dumbest fish. I've watched brook trout eat pine needles. That in my mind, is pretty stupid.

[Bhflyfisher]

Why brookies look way nicer in all seasons tbh nothing special about a bull or cutt i say let nature take its course if bullys dont survive then so be it there will be plenty of brookies to be caught.

This doesnt even dignify a response.

[Guitarplayingfish]

Why brookies look way nicer in all seasons tbh nothing special about a bull or cutt i say let nature take its course if bullys dont survive then so be it there will be plenty of brookies to be caught.


Thats just a silly thing to say....

Why?!?

Hmm.. lets think about this....

Brookies are NOT native..... Bull Trout are... They are threatened because of people like you who think stocking or catching Brooks would be more enjoyable... (and because of our never-ending degredation of fisheries)If you want to catch Brooks than go elsewhere, Albertas Bull Trout are here to stay (I hope).


Early naturalists had this to say about the fish: Bull Trout are by far the most active and handsome of the trout, they live in the coldest, cleanest and most secluded waters. No higher praise can be given to a Salmonid than to say, it is a charr. (Jordan and Evermann 1896)

[BeeGuy]

Why brookies look way nicer in all seasons tbh nothing special about a bull or cutt i say let nature take its course if bullys dont survive then so be it there will be plenty of brookies to be caught.

This doesnt even dignify a response.

Sure it does...

:1041:

[Guitarplayingfish]

Now, Lets see some more bullies!

[canamdon]

here's one 54689from RDR Trunk Road area!

[Saltmania]

Kakwa tributary bull. Small, but nice colours.

http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m514/saltmania/IMG_0024.jpg

[Heavy K]

Well I'll say sorry to everyone but "tight" seeing as he has to get personal - but I just couldn't resist. You see bears aren't the only thing I like baiting. You'll have to admit it was as easy as dropping a fly in front of a bull. Nothing to getting a rise and a strike! Was just haveing some fun at your expense.

I honestly would rather catch a brookie cause even mature bulls I find are pretty easy to catch. Just like some got upset I get upset with this new brookie "kill licence" on some of the southern watersheds. I hate "management" that values one fish species over another. I can say I've never seen it work anywhere it is tried. So this little roll cast into the eddy was as much a reaction to that as anything.

I know you've got your opinion, and I know you're mostly havin' a good old fashion troll. :) I'll simply raise the point that in our warmer eastern slope creeks, the Brookies are so successful that they outcompete other species, and then start stunting. This means that that the forage base is great enough only to allow fish to reach a certain size. So, if you really like catching 50 4" Brookies/hr, then keep up your argument. However, by using anthropogenic selection against an anthropogenically introduced species, you not only improve the quality of fishery (ie size of fish) of indigenous species, but of the Brook trout too. Much like Perch, you'll NEVER eliminate them entirely, but you can apply selective pressure to modify their effect on an ecosystem.

So, what is it gonna be, 3" Brookies all the time, or a larger, more diverse fishery for Bulls, Cutts, and Brookies? Food for thought.

HK

[ryanheartssteelhead]

here's a little one from last season

[Daceminnow]

Post up all those pics of the wonderful alberta bull trout!!!!



sure man. what do you wanna see? i got lots. how about a couple fun shots of the aggressive fellas.



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and for the brookie lovers. hey, i love them too. never caught a fish i didn't like. they have their place.


http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd450/daceminnow/K%20Country%20August%201-6%202011/IMG_2327.jpg



and a convenient link for those that haven't seen it to a thread started by an Alberta Biologist pertaining to the preservation of our fishery in this province.


http://www.outdoorsmenforum.ca/showthread.php?t=136932


Dace

[fishdude17]

Southern AB bull trout, caught in May of this year :sHa_shakeshout:

[tight line]

Awesome pics! Nice shots Dace! Especially the pan fries.
Brookies have their place in Alberta.... In lakes... Lol