Please! Go fishing. Binky ----- Original Message ----- From: T. Lang Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 12:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Dollies vs. Bulls
>From: "Preston Singletary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: "Washington Fly fishers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Dollies vs. Bulls
>Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 18:06:20 -0800
>
>Nope, Dolly Varden and bull trout are both char (genus Salvelinus) but of
>different species. Dolly Varden are S. malma and bull trout, S.
>confluentus. They are very closely related, the main morphological
>differences being in lateral line scale count, number of pyloric caeca and
>gill rakers, and in the shape of the head and jaws. These are probably not
>differences that could be definitely identified by the layman but, unlike
>rainbows and steelehad, enough to have assigned separate species status. I
>think it would be safe to say that Dolly Varden are probably more likely to
>have an anadromous lifestyle than bull trout, but I don't think that one
>could definitively say that bull trout don't. In southern BC and northern
>Puget Sound rivers (and the coastal rivers) the populations are mixed.
>North of this region it's Dollies only, until they begin to blend into the
>populations of Arctic char in Alaska. To the south, bull trout are found
>east into the Columbia drainage and the Rocky Mountains and, at one time,
>south as far as California.
>
If you had a choice between a 5wt and an 8wt for Dollies, which would you
use? I suppose the odd Steelie is a factor...
Thanks, Tom
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