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Originally Posted by 1/2 oz Bucktail
Seriously, you are in Grande Cache, arguably some of the best Bull trout fishing and I dare say the best Grayling fishing in Alberta.... Who cares about a stocked lake. Let the suckers stay and dump in some Bull trout to help control the population. Have you seen the numbers of brook trout fingerlings that are stocked in Victor Lake each year? It is ridiculous. And where do you figure that all of those thousands of fingerlings are going??? Yup you guessed it, they are feeding the larger brook trout and rainbows in the lake. If the idea is to enhance the fisheries at both Victor and Grande Cache lakes, the answer is a major decrease in trout stocking rates, not the complete elimination of a native fish species.
The whole idea of giving the suckers the "football" treatment sounds very disturbingly similar to previous attitudes towards Pike, Burbot, and Bull trout, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Keep the suckers as they are a natural part of the system.
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SRD doesn't have any problem with it and neither do I. There's talk of putting the old sucker trap in the canal again. Talk to a fishery biologist and maybe you'll have a different take on things.