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Originally Posted by steelhead
Someone bumped a topic up from a day on K lakes. Man those are big bulls. Huge actually.
And it got me thinking.
So if we were to enhance the rainbow trout fishing on this lake with stricter regs for thier size and survival as they seem to be self reproducing now, would they push out the bulls and cutts like they did on the Bow river?
If that were to happen, or have a chance to happen, I am against it.
Logan wont have any big bull pictures to share of what already looks like a quality fishery!
Anglers can catch huge fish there. Maybee not on a flyrod, but they certainly can catch big fish here. Can you use a flyrod to fish the deep deep water where the biggest fish hold in a deep lake situation? I never seen flyfishing done on Kootenay lake in August when the big bows are in 200 feet of water.
I bet those test nets didnt stretch into the deepest water.
STEELHEAD
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To my understanding, the main goal actually isn't to enhance the rainbow trout fishing there, but rather the cutthroats. Although I'm not aware of as many lakes with both bulls and cutthroats, but I know they coexist quite well in many river systems. I do not believe that cutthroats would drive out the bull trout.
There is an extremely small risk of the rainbow trout population increasing on the lower lake as there is some natural reproduction, but I do not believe people heavily target the rainbows now as it is. So it's most likely the the rainbows have a low population simply due to limited spawning habitat of perhaps some other limiting factor. With something like this limiting the numbers, I don't think we would have to worry about rainbows pushing out the cutts and bulls.