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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: badboi on August 16, 2004, 12:33:33 PM

Title: deer lake trout with adipose fin
Post by: badboi on August 16, 2004, 12:33:33 PM

every trout i have seen at deer lake has the adipose fin.  Why are these hacthery fish (I'm assuming) not been clipped?

Title: Re:deer lake trout with adipose fin
Post by: Koho on August 16, 2004, 01:00:33 PM

Probably because you can keep any trout you catch in a lake, both wild or stocked (trout in Deer Lk are mostly stocked) in Region 2.  It would cost a lot of money and time to clip all stocked trout in lakes.

In a river, you have to release all wild trout and steelhead.  So it makes it easier for the angler to ID the hatchery fish missing the adipose fin.  Fisheries managers also want to use the wild fish for brood stock so they can easily tell which are the wild fish in rivers.

 

Title: Re:deer lake trout with adipose fin
Post by: Koho on August 16, 2004, 07:09:24 PM

I never did eat a trout out of Deer Lk too, always CnR.  Many of the rainbows I caught in Deer Lk had lesions on their bodies.  How is their condition this year?

Title: Re:deer lake trout with adipose fin
Post by: otto on August 16, 2004, 07:43:47 PM

mushy, very mushy, almost as mushy as the carp...... :-X