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Originally Posted by phillcollins
What about Cow lake ?? them perch got any bigger there ??
I read something about them stocking there some bigger size bows.
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Cow lake is partly why I stared the thread.
It had been a barren lake with lots of bug feed in it.
It was stocked with a big bunch of rainbows and they grew like crazy and provided a very popular trout fishery. Then the whirling disease in Alberta's hatchery shut down almost all trout stocking.
Then perch got into the lake and started reproducing like crazy.
F&W stopped stocking small trout and just dumped in some big brood trout once in awhile.
Then F&W stocked pike into the lake. The pike have been reproducing and eating perch and are now providing a pretty good fishery.
Pike and perch both reproduce them selves in this lake and I reckon this is probably the best fit for this lake.
I wonder sometimes if it would be better to do something similar to this in some other lakes.
Open Creek Reservoir near Rimbey has heaps of suckers in it and the trout that they stock in it each year do not grow well with the sucker competition. I reckon pike would eat suckers and pretty soon there would be a good (naturally reproducing) pike fishery there.