White fish?

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To answer more of the questions, let's look at and compare the Weber and the Provo. In both streams the two dominant game fish are whitefish and browns. Actually nowdays there may be more rainbows than whitefish in the Provo but that does not make any difference for the discussion. On the Provo browns are by far the most numerous fish. On the Weber whitefish make up I would say at least 80% of the fish caught. The Provo has an overpopulation/stunting problem. The Weber does not. This tells me that factors involving the nature of the streams like stable flows durring the brown spawn on the Provo, more silting tributaries on the Weber, etc. are more important in determining the population ratio of fish than the interaction of the two species (browns and whitefish). Since the Provo has an overpopulation/stunting problem and the Weber does not and the Provo is dominated by trout I submit that whitefish do NOT compete for space or food with trout. I do not think that fewer whitefish would necessarily mean more trout on the Weber. More brown probably does mean fewer whitefish on the Provo. I do think that more stable flows on the Weber durring the brown spawn would result in more browns and probably fewer whitefish. Whether that would improve the fishery is debatable. Right now the quality of fish (both whitefish and brown) seems to be better on the Weber. I would rather catch trout but I do not mind catching whitefish especially big ones.
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