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Originally Posted by Dubious
Well, page 7 of this tells us that they stocked the tltlj strain and the legend at the bottom says that’s trout lodge jumpers.
https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/be2e...jan02-2018.pdf
Google that and we get this, could be a red herring just does provide some good media to digest. Have a look at the growth chart 16 months can produce a 5lb fish. We probably arn’t optimal growth but some of those fish have been in the lake for 6 years now
https://www.troutlodge.com/en/trout-...t-eggs/jumper/
I have been told by sources that they did dump in some of big brood hens but I don’t know what strain those where and I know people that have caught some large trout in there. Whether they are still there now who knows I don’t have a boat to access the hot spot I’ve been told produced them. |
Trout lodge jumpers makes a lot more sense then Gerald’s and more cost effective
5lbs under optimal conditions in 16months would be under aquaculture conditions where temp, oxygen levels, and feed quality is much better than what will be found in nature. The Jumper strain is not really a big fish strain. Most in aquaculture are actually achieving more often in the 3-4lbs range in 16 months because many of them can’t achieve optimal conditions either
I worked with a different strain(a mutt strain created within B.C. aquaculture) that often produces better growth rates and in 16months I was probably averaging 4lbs. My growth rate was often effected by hot summers slowing them down. I also didn’t run tripliods which effected my growth rate
I would say that it’s just an ok strain being stocked in pine coulee