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Mike,
Ha-Hmmm...do you know what an Alabama Dupont
Spinner is?
DonO
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 12:42
AM
Subject: Re: [VFB] Farewell Yellowstone
Cutthroat...
If he could catch them - we should. Somebody needs to do
it. Why not Chuck?
On 7/30/06, DonO
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mike,
Let's invite Chuck up there with all of the
Alabama Dupont Spinners he wants.
Don
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 5:04
PM
Subject: Re: [VFB] Farewell Yellowstone
Cutthroat...
Let me add to what Wes said. Cutthrout as dumb as they may be are
(at least the Yellowstone variety) pretty good fighters. They are are
shallow feeders and offer then food for eagles, osprey, bear, pelican,
etc. They are therefore conditioned to watch for predators from
above. The lake trout hunts from below. As I was told a trout
can take another fish up to 3/4's its own size. That means no
cutthroat in the lake is safe because they grow twice - three times as large
as a cutthroat. This will have an effect on the whole ecosystem.
I am sorry to hear the bounty did not work. Maybe they should raise
the bounty.
Mike
On 7/30/06, Reuven
Segal <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
What
is this total disgust for lake
trout??
R
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Broomell
Sent: Monday, 31 July 2006 4:00 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [VFB] Farewell
Yellowstone Cutthroat...
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 yearsMan 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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