Re: [VFB] Farewell Yellowstone Cutthroat...

[Jack Lehman]

Yeah, tie some Puglisi style cutthroat trout imitations and troll them on a full-sink line behind your tube.  There are some here that tie 8 inch rainbow imitations for the bass and stripers that feed on the stockers.

 

Jack
Austin

Tom Davenport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Any suggestion on how to fly fish for Lake Trout?

Tom


On Jul 30, 2006, at 2:17 PM, Reuven Segal wrote:

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> What is this total disgust for lake trout??
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> Subject: RE: [VFB] Farewell Yellowstone Cutthroat...
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>
> I also find this interesting. I hit the Yellowstone about a month
> ago...the
> fishing was MUCH more difficult than I had remembered from 4 years
> ago (of
> course, it can always be operator error). Still...it was a great
> day -
> Sarah and I got to take a nice hike away from the rest of the
> Tourons...saw
> some nice wildlife (and kept our distance)...and was able to catch a
> cutthroat...
>
> Chris
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> On 7/29/06, Tom Davenport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> I just returned from my annual trip to fish the Calibaetis hatch on
> Yellowstone Lake. The hatch was amazing, the water literally covered
> with bugs... but no one was home to eat the meal. In three days of
> hard fishing I saw only one fish rise... the one and only fish I
> caught. My fish finder showed nothing until I rowed out to Gull
> Point to a spot where the water plunges from 18 to 100 feet, and
> suddenly it sounded like Geiger counter as the fish alarm and fish
> symbols showed HUNDREDS of lake trout holding between 20 and 100
> feet. As far as I know the only thing those lake trout have to eat
> is Cutthroat trout, and they have been feeding well. Add to that
> Whirling disease in the Yellowstone river and some of the other
> tributaries and you have the cause.
>
> After talking with the rangers I heard some startling facts: Some of
> the spawning creeks that used to fill with thousands of spawning
> cutthroat had NONE return this year... and the Yellowstone river only
> had 5% of the normal number of spawners.
>
> It is sad to think that in 11 years Man has undone a fishery that
> has lasted at least 4 million years (156 thousand in its latest
> incarnation, when the West Thumb Caldera was formed it probably
> killed everything in the lake).
>
> The only good news is that the Lake Trout will start dying out when
> their primary food source is gone... and probably begin a boom-bust
> cycle. The same will be true for all of the wildlife that depend on
> the trout spawn.
>
> Eventually another volcanic event in Yellowstone Lake will purge it
> of the Lake trout, and I suspect the fish will evolve a resistance to
> Whirling disease, but none of this will happen in my lifetime. In
> fact there is a good chance that men won't even be around to screw
> things up when that happens.
>
> I WILL return next year, and will hope that a school of surviving
> Cutthroat just happen to be feeding where I am fishing. I will also
> bring a spinning rod and some heavy jigs and see if I can get a
> little revenge on the Lake trout...
>
> Tom Davenport
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