New Trout Going Into Henry's?

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All hybrids and brook trout are sterilized by the F & G now. The hybrids this year will be 100,000 Gerrard/HL cutt cross and 100,000 Hayspur/HL cutt cross, the "normal" hybrids of the past few years. Looks optimistic and hopefully will be good. In years past, the F & G has experimented with the hybrids and brook trout as one year they used a steelhead/cutt cross and in another year they used five different strains of rainbows to cross with the cutts for the hybrids and most were not sterile. Could it be that the second generation hybrids, before all were sterilized, were the ones that lived six years and were the ones that got big? Just a thought????????????

Then in the 1980's they introduced two Canadian strains of brook trout, the Assinicas and Temiscamies, that had a long life span and grew large in their home waters. Not so in Henrys - both strains lasted only two seasons and disappeared.

Hopefully this will be successful and we will be catching 20 pound hybrids in four to five years from now.
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