I'm 99% certain they are brookies. Now that I carry my digital camera with me on my outings I'll be able to verify it... hopefully next time I'm up there I'll bring one to hand.
-tight lines- Jim -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ed Morrison Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 10:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Small creek fishing report 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 > > >
