Flaming gorge Browns?

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Ray johnson might be the guy you are thinking of,he has caught many a big brown out of the gorge.I remember attending a meeting held buy the wyoming game and fish about ten years ago,they were wanting public input as how to manage the gorge.I remember that basically what came out of the meeting was that the game and fish was going to manage the gorge as a fishery for "trophy lake trout",hense putting more money in the coffers for the game and fish by bringing more sportsman to the gorge to fish for trophy lakers.People at the meeting were told that the monies for the brown program was going to be shifted to the lake trout program,and not much was going to be done with the program for the browns.Now some good and bad had come out of this,a very good program for kokenee salmon,a good program for lake trout,but the brown trout program has suffered alot,there are still big browns out there just not nearly as many and they are harder to catch.Another thing that the game and fish people said was the the gorge was not a good fishery for the browns ,water to cold ,foilage was scarce,and to much competeion for food with the other species,(always made me wonder ,if this is true how did they get so big in the first place).Any way this is all just my opionon,but good luck,,hope you do a catch a big brown just dont hold your breath to do.
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