05-15-2003, 03:32 AM
[size 2]IFG, I didn't intend to offend. Kamloops have been in the Gorge for years. The record rainbow from 1979 (26 lbs. 2 oz.) from the Gorge is a kamloops. [/size]
[size 2]Here's a quote from an email received from Tom Pettengill from 2001...[/size] [blue][size 2]We were stocking them in 1982 when I was project leader at the Gorge and as far as I know continued to stock them until the last few years when we lost access to them through the Federal Hatchery system. I think if we were going to see more 20 pounders since the record fish caught in 1979 that we would be seeing them now. Lately we have just been stocking a strain of rainbows from Eagle Lake. The kamloops we were stocking were Gerrard Kamloops from British Columbia if my memory is correct. We were stocking the domestic strain of kamloops that many places have worked with. The Gerrard Kamloops are a long lived, slow maturing fish.[/size][/blue]
[size 2]Here's a quote from an email received from Tom Pettengill from 2001...[/size] [blue][size 2]We were stocking them in 1982 when I was project leader at the Gorge and as far as I know continued to stock them until the last few years when we lost access to them through the Federal Hatchery system. I think if we were going to see more 20 pounders since the record fish caught in 1979 that we would be seeing them now. Lately we have just been stocking a strain of rainbows from Eagle Lake. The kamloops we were stocking were Gerrard Kamloops from British Columbia if my memory is correct. We were stocking the domestic strain of kamloops that many places have worked with. The Gerrard Kamloops are a long lived, slow maturing fish.[/size][/blue]