If they truly are Brookies, they'd have to be plants (WDFW or illegal), as I don't think the SF Snoq is a tailwater, is it? How else would they get there? No lakes feeding it either up river or down... Maybe the Tolt, but that's a rather circuitous route....
Maybe I've finally found a release valve for all those closet fish-killers on the board ;-)) mmmmmmmm, broiled brookie..... Aaaaaauuuuuuuggggggggggggg.... Hello. My name is Sean, and I kill brook trout.... Hiiiiiiiiiiii, SEAN!!! Ed Morrison wrote: > Speaking of brookies and the S Fork Snoqualmie, Washington Trout believes > there may be some native char (Dollies, probably not Bull Trout) in the S > Fork. If anybody believes they catch one there, WT would love to hear from > you. It may be, however, that reports of char there may actually have been > brookies. > > Ed Morrison > >From the south fork of the Snoqualmie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Speaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 3:31 PM > Subject: RE: Small creek fishing report > > > S Fork Snoqualmie has brookies too, but the numbers are much lower than > the > > rainbows. I'd guess there are at least 10:1 rainbows:brookies. The > > brookies are rare, a very few are good size (up to 11" to hand) and I > > actually consider them a treat up there. > > > > -tight lines- > > Jim Speaker > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sean Grier > > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 10:02 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Small creek fishing report > > > > > > As have I. And yes, the lake did cut off the cutts (pun intended). Some > > old buddies of mine from when I lived down there get together each year > and > > use Timothy as base camp. We take the middle of the day when nothing is > > biting and fish the upper or lower Oak Grove and catch and kill brookies > > every time. Unfortunately, ODFW used to (may have quit by now) plant > > brookies in many of the Mt. Hood area lakes. > > Timothy has some monsters in it. Might be worth trying Homer's, err.... > > Phil's idea of a sculpin pattern there near the dam... My buddies should > be > > heading out right now for the annual Western Flyfishing Open IV. > > Unfortunately, being laid off has nixed my inclusion in the trip this year > > (thanks again you middle eastern terrorist ba@#$rds!!!). We'd usually go > > and try to hit the big hex hatch on Timothy and > > (somewhat) nearby Lost Lake. > > > > Sean > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I fished the Oak Grove fork above the lake, in the big meadow, a couple > > years ago and all we caught were brookies. We released them all though. I > > wonder if the formation of the lake has cut that area off from the > > cutthroats? I believe that whatever species are in the lake have the > ability > > to swim upstream to the meadow, but we didn't see anything else. > > > > > > Ross > > > > > > > > > > > > No problem, Brian. I probably came off sounding kinda snotty, anyway. > > Didn't mean to.... > > > > > > > > There's a great little stream east of Portland called the Oak Grove > fork > > of the Clackamas. Although it's a tailwater (feeding out of Timothy > Lake), > > there's still tons of beautiful wild, native coastal cutts in it up to > 16". > > The TU chapter there that I belonged to when I lived in Vancouver, WA > kinda > > took that stream as it's personal crusade. I remember during a fish > > counting outing that also doubled as > > > > a fishing expedition, we were told by the local ODFW Biologist to keep > > and kill ANY and all brooks we found. You can imagine trying to get a > bunch > > of dyed-in-the-wool C&R TU'ers to kill ANYTHING with fins, but we did. > The > > group of us were broken up into teams of two and given a beat on the > stream > > to fish and count. The guys closest to the lake, of course, caught the > > largest amount of brookies, but we > > > > all landed some. So I'm not surprised at hearing the ratios you talk > > about. Sad, very sad. Maybe we can talk to WDFW and see if they have the > > same attitude towards non-native invasive species and ways that we can > help > > return fisheries like you experienced to some level of balance. Were you > > perhaps fishing one of the tributaries of the Cispus, by chance? I've > > caught lots of brookies in the lakes > > > > feeding those tribs, though never seen any in the Cispus itself. > > > > > > > > Sean > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > > Sean, > > > > > I stand corrected. I should have used the wild (not planted) rather > > then native. These were definitely brookies, not dollies. We didn't catch > > any cutts in these streams. The brookies outnumbered the bows by about 10 > to > > 1. They were starting to signs of becoming stunted due to the numbers in > the > > creek. Some of the 7 inchers looked like they were about maxed > > > > out size wise. Small bodies with big heads. > > > > > Brian > > > > > >
