WDFW Triploids

Lue Taylor

Lue Taylor

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Notice on the stocking that they are planting Triploids in some lakes they do not expect them to grow in a put & take lakes.
 
Hope all is well Lue, haven't seen you in forever. I miss chasing triploids at Martha. That got really fun for a while.

Was just on wdfw and the pic on the front of the stocking report gave me a good laugh. Howd you like to be this guy (in the chair)...😆
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Tim L said:
Hope all is well Lue, haven't seen you in forever. I miss chasing triploids at Martha. That got really fun for a while.

Was just on wdfw and the pic on the front of the stocking report gave me a good laugh. Howd you like to be this guy (in the chair)...😆
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They probably had to ask him to move his chair off the launch ramp and he was probably all grumpy about it.
Little did he know…
 
Is WDFW making the triploids or buying them? I note that the plantings are close to the Puyallup Hatchery, that would be pretty prohibitive freight if they came from Soap Lake.
 
Triploids are available at the Nisqually trout farm. On the co-manager's future brood document, I don't see where Puyallup hatchery is raising any triploids.

Generally speaking, on western Washington lowland lakes triploids provide an immediate boost to the fishery but the fish do not seem to grow or last very long in those lakes.
 
Lue Taylor said:
Notice on the stocking that they are planting Triploids in some lakes they do not expect them to grow in a put & take lakes.
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The state hasn’t stocked triploids in years. What you notice on stocking reports are what they call jumbos. Size of fish when stocked doesn’t dictate whether it’s a tripod or not. It is a process that involves pressure on fertilized egg that creates sterile fish and the most common way to stock triploids are as Fingerlings or catchables. The jumbos are brood stock fish that they have no use for anymore and dump them into lakes. Which is why they are heavily spotted and look in spawn phase. By definition they cannot be triploids since they a fertile
 
Glenn6405 said:
The state hasn’t stocked triploids in years. What you notice on stocking reports are what they call jumbos. Size of fish when stocked doesn’t dictate whether it’s a tripod or not. It is a process that involves pressure on fertilized egg that creates sterile fish and the most common way to stock triploids are as Fingerlings or catchables. The jumbos are brood stock fish that they have no use for anymore and dump them into lakes. Which is why they are heavily spotted and look in spawn phase. By definition they cannot be triploids since they a fertile
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This is an important distinction. The Jumbos they put in the lakes have been pellet fed their entire lives and are nearing the end. The majority are in poor condition and don't do much more than pull hard and hug the bottom of the lake.

BC stocks yearling and fingerling triploids that have potential to grow into trophy fish in the right conditions. They can out eat wild rainbows, but they still grow based on the natural diet in the lakes. Very high quality fish when compared to the brookstock "jumbos" that they drop in the lakes around here.
 
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