07-28-2003, 09:06 PM
This kinda question has been debated many, many times at [url "http://www.Utahonthefly.com"]www.Utahonthefly.com[/url], they wouldnt stock muskies, pike, Tiger muskies, and walleye in strawberry because those species of fish will almost always prefer a nice plump trout/salmon over a chub. Its to cold for Smallmouths to get very big, so they just spread throught out the lake and stunt. Lakers would eat the kokanee salmon more then chubs, Brown trout are already present in the res. and they offer no real solution, stocking splake in the lake idea has be tossed back in forth by the DWR, but they don't beleive splake would only eat chubs, so they would impact the rest of the fishery aswell. The only real solution the DWR sees fit is to get alot of 18+ cutts ( mainly fish eaters) through out the lake to feed on the chubs, hence the special regs this year.
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