I fished the SF Snoqualmie under the Fire Acedemy bridge with my then-9 year old daughter a couple years ago. We caught several Dollies (possibly Bull Trout) up to 9 inches that were definitely NOT brookies.
Kent Lufkin >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 >> >> >>
