Bruce Baker
Steelhead
I will chime in Brian. Yes, they are raised at the Columbia Basin Fish Hatchery.
Lahontan cutthroat study at Lake Lenore
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Brian - the fish are transported to Spokane for incubation and rearing, here's more from today's Grant County (ready?) Journal:
Thread drift in the wayback machine.
The mentioned specialist Caine Brand grew up in Whatcom county and is a friend of mine. His dad graduated Ferndale high school and was part of a band The Henhouse Doors that played our high school dances late 60s and early 70s.
His dad was the drummer and Iron Butterfly's hit Ina-gadda-da-vida-was their specialty.
17 minute drum solo and strobe lights.
Wow, that was some cool shit man!
So a friend of mine participated in the study a couple of the days.
He told me (since I am a data nerd) that there were several age groups. And several sizes 12-13 , 17-18, 20-22 inches. Also, that this was a staff driven and proactive activity/study. Good numbers were captured. In 3 days over 600, only 3 from previous day(s) (repeat captures). There was multiple locations throughout the lake that the capture happened in, and good numbers were in all locations, not just the north end.
Now, I understand the "good old days" feelings, but if you don't fish today there will not be a "good old yesterday" story/feeling. Embrace what you have today. Tight lines
He told me (since I am a data nerd) that there were several age groups. And several sizes 12-13 , 17-18, 20-22 inches. Also, that this was a staff driven and proactive activity/study. Good numbers were captured. In 3 days over 600, only 3 from previous day(s) (repeat captures). There was multiple locations throughout the lake that the capture happened in, and good numbers were in all locations, not just the north end.
Now, I understand the "good old days" feelings, but if you don't fish today there will not be a "good old yesterday" story/feeling. Embrace what you have today. Tight lines
Interestingly, in those good ole days, one simply never caught a 12” fish. Small was 18” and 30” fish were not uncommon at all.
The smaller fish had to be there, but they must have occupied a different area of the lake than where the masses of us fished.
770 fish captured - 20 fyke nets set around the perimiter of the lake and two on the big island. The biggest fish captured was 26". I think this study that Mike Schmuck, DFW Bio, initiated, shows there's a good population of fish in Lenore. The distribution from the study indicates the fish can be anywhere..... and it is a big lake. Time to explore!
I caught my first ever fly caught fish at Lenore. Windy as hell, me in my hip boots fishing from shore getting soaked not knowing what the hell I was doing.
Good memories. Haven't fished it in probably 20 years but used to catch a lot of nice size fish there back in the day.
SF
Good memories. Haven't fished it in probably 20 years but used to catch a lot of nice size fish there back in the day.
SF
Wayne Kohan
Life of the Party
Probably the first lake I tried flyfishing. Donut tube, neoprene waders. Did what I was told on the north end of the lake. On like the third cast, hooked my neoprenes, an impossible task to free it up in the old donuts. Now I would just clip off the fly, but for some reason that did not occur to me (I'm sure I didn't have the thousand of flies I have now) and I headed back to shore. Still pretty much impossible to get out of that situation with the fly still attached to your flyrod. Wish someone would've filmed that for me.
I think the largest fish I've ever caught on a dry fly was a 29" (measured) Lahontan cutthroat from Lenore... maybe 20 years ago. There was a great hatch of callibaetis for most of the afternoon, (looked like popcorn everywhere!) and we never saw a fish rise for the 1st couple hours. Then boom...fish were everywhere! I switched to a dry, and hooked up on the first cast. That fish towed me around in the tube....!
(no picture because I didn't have a cell phone then)
(no picture because I didn't have a cell phone then)
Bringing this back from the catacombs. Starting to anticipate hitting L in a month and I thought back to this thread. I've always been fascinated by it and had many great days there while attending CWU. Did Mike Schmuck ever publish a report on this study....or give a presentation to any of the fly clubs in WA?
