04-21-2006, 02:10 PM
The Henry's Lake triploid program has been seriously in existence for about 4 years. It has only been the last two years that all hybrids are triploids and last year was the first year that all brook trout were triploids. So like you say the data is still coming in.
I think you are correct when you say that the Henry's Lake cutts do not get as big in other lakes. The cutts are all diploids and so the phenominal food base in Henry's does account for their larger growth.
The one thing that we are forgetting when we are talking about Henry's is that if we want the large hybrids and brooks, regardless of whether they are growing faster or slower then normal, then they have to be triploid if they are in a cutthroat watershed.
I for one like the diversity in multispecies fisheries including Henry's and if we do not want to invoke the wrath of the Endangered Species Act then we should keep stocking sterile brooks and hybrids in Henry's, Kokes in Ririe etc...
Good Fishing To You ALL
Windriver
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I think you are correct when you say that the Henry's Lake cutts do not get as big in other lakes. The cutts are all diploids and so the phenominal food base in Henry's does account for their larger growth.
The one thing that we are forgetting when we are talking about Henry's is that if we want the large hybrids and brooks, regardless of whether they are growing faster or slower then normal, then they have to be triploid if they are in a cutthroat watershed.
I for one like the diversity in multispecies fisheries including Henry's and if we do not want to invoke the wrath of the Endangered Species Act then we should keep stocking sterile brooks and hybrids in Henry's, Kokes in Ririe etc...
Good Fishing To You ALL
Windriver
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