11-20-2014, 01:08 AM
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[size 3][font "Calibri"]You are applying the wrong principles to the lake. Only 10,000 of the million fish planted survive to be catchable. And only 500 of those make it to the 7+ year age class. The fish caught yesterday were healthy from a great food supply. Large fish feed on the small fish in this food chain. Reducing stocking numbers will not support the trophy trout population but quite the opposite.[/font][/size]
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Henry's Lake is plenty fertile to grow large fish (fast!) without a forage base. You do not need to run a fish feeding stocking program to grow those fish.
If you have too many fish, then you MUST reduce those fish to grow them big. You CANNOT keep adding more fish if your population is too high. It simply does not work.
your comments may work, IF your population is not too high. But, from the comments made in this thread it sounds like most believe that there are too many fish. Adding more to the bucket won't work.
(Lee's Ferry grew fish in excess of 15lbs for numerous years on nothing more than scuds!! Boulder Mountain grows 20" brook trout in 4 years on amphipods. Henry's has that same potential, as a relatively low elevation, large surface area, shallow lake)
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[size 3][font "Calibri"]You are applying the wrong principles to the lake. Only 10,000 of the million fish planted survive to be catchable. And only 500 of those make it to the 7+ year age class. The fish caught yesterday were healthy from a great food supply. Large fish feed on the small fish in this food chain. Reducing stocking numbers will not support the trophy trout population but quite the opposite.[/font][/size]
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Henry's Lake is plenty fertile to grow large fish (fast!) without a forage base. You do not need to run a fish feeding stocking program to grow those fish.
If you have too many fish, then you MUST reduce those fish to grow them big. You CANNOT keep adding more fish if your population is too high. It simply does not work.
your comments may work, IF your population is not too high. But, from the comments made in this thread it sounds like most believe that there are too many fish. Adding more to the bucket won't work.
(Lee's Ferry grew fish in excess of 15lbs for numerous years on nothing more than scuds!! Boulder Mountain grows 20" brook trout in 4 years on amphipods. Henry's has that same potential, as a relatively low elevation, large surface area, shallow lake)
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