01-31-2011, 04:29 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Glad you are getting to stretch your string on something bigger than a newly planted "gulli-bow". Also glad to see that you are putting them back for others to play with.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Chances are that the next person to hook either of those fish will take them home to show off...maybe to eat and maybe not. They are really not prime table fare after living several years in a hatchery. But, they are often the biggest fish that many anglers will ever catch and are just as exciting to them as a stream-raised 20 inch trout to many more "seasoned" anglers.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I applaud DWR for making good use of the worn out brood stock, rather than just dumping them in a land fill after their last spawning. Some ponds get large brookies and even macks. Lots of kids...and adults too...really don't care about how and why those big fish got in the ponds. All they care about is being able to bring in a biggun. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I was first exposed to the brood stock planting program way back in the early 1960's. I fished the lower Provo River...just above the lake...all year round. Then late one January day my spinners were getting mugged by big old "Finless Freddies". A pleasant surprise on a day when nothing else was biting. That brood stock planting from the old Springville hatchery provided lots of fun fishing for quite a few folks for several weeks...until the walleyes and whities came upstream for the spring fling.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Chances are that the next person to hook either of those fish will take them home to show off...maybe to eat and maybe not. They are really not prime table fare after living several years in a hatchery. But, they are often the biggest fish that many anglers will ever catch and are just as exciting to them as a stream-raised 20 inch trout to many more "seasoned" anglers.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I applaud DWR for making good use of the worn out brood stock, rather than just dumping them in a land fill after their last spawning. Some ponds get large brookies and even macks. Lots of kids...and adults too...really don't care about how and why those big fish got in the ponds. All they care about is being able to bring in a biggun. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I was first exposed to the brood stock planting program way back in the early 1960's. I fished the lower Provo River...just above the lake...all year round. Then late one January day my spinners were getting mugged by big old "Finless Freddies". A pleasant surprise on a day when nothing else was biting. That brood stock planting from the old Springville hatchery provided lots of fun fishing for quite a few folks for several weeks...until the walleyes and whities came upstream for the spring fling.[/#0000ff]
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