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Originally Posted by chubbdarter
I often relate the rmw decline to the grizzley bear.
The grizzley and the whole eco system is life dependant on the short salmon spawn.
Did the rmw rely as heavy on the Bull trout spawn? You see grizzley bears who are so full that they catch a salmon and rip its guts open if its a male salmon its sea gull food. If they catch a female salmon they eat only the eggs. Were bully eggs a ingrediant that played a key factor in rmw numbers?
We have a wierd tme period when bulls were near gone....rmw should of flourished....my simple mind says they needed each other.
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Stop making sense...I am getting confused...
There was definitely a whitefish consumption thing going on that helped make 10 lb - 20 lb bulls...not mayflies alone. Maybe not eggs...but definitely eating small to medium whites. In the Oldman River...we electrofished large bulls. We knew a large one was behind an approaching boulder from the big swirl as a 12 inch stunned whitefish drifted by.