Yellowstone Lake cuts (fish NOT politics)

[brymoore]

Nice.

 

[What Map]

2ski, thanks for the laker fishing advise in the Flathead. I'll try some of your suggestions. Your technique is very similar to what we use on Yellowstone Lake.
We did pick up a few lakers and smoked them. Here's a pic:



Here's a pic of one of the cutthroats we released during our last visit to the lake:



Some days have been good, others have been so windy that we can't get our boat out of the marina.

 

[What Map]

Good news for those of us who fish for cutthroat trout in Yellowstone Lake.

Efforts to reduce lake trout in Yellowstone Lake are working.

Lew Freedman reported in the Cody Enterprise Aug 3, 2016 that:

“the expensive, determined effort to make cutthroat trout king of Yellowstone Lake again by diminishing the impact of lake trout is working. What was once a 90-10 percent dominance by the voracious lake trout is now closer to 50-50 in Yellowstone National Park’s signature body of water.

“The cutthroat population has tripled,” said Cody’s Dave Sweet of Trout Unlimited about the last four years.

In recent years, the Park Service, aided by donors, has spent $2 million annually to pay hired gillnetters to catch and kill as many lake trout each summer as possible. The figure has topped 300,000 for about three years in a row and by the third week in July this year the number was approaching 200,000.”

Mrs. Map and I see the two or three "killing" boat/machines go out each morning with a crew of hard-working young people. They stay out for hours and haul the lake-trout nets up. They kill the lakers and throw them back in the Lake and then reset the nets.

Here is the URL for the entire story in the Cody Enterprise:


http://www.codyenterprise.com/news/sports/article_0743584a-59b8-11e6-8058-438c2921ffc0.html

 

[Majja]

Very nice fish.