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  • in reply to: Tenkara? #89584
    Brian Curtis
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      There isn’t a lot of stream fishing in the Washington Cascades. Most of the fish are in high lakes and the streams tend (with notable exceptions) to be too small and steep.

      A boat would certainly help. You could troll a fly with that set-up and cover a lot of water. But you’d still be severely limited compared to a small spinning or conventional flyfishing setup. The fish always seem to rise just out of casting range no matter what set-up you are using :fishing:

      in reply to: Tenkara? #89582
      Brian Curtis
      Keymaster

        I don’t have any direct experience with tenkara so take anything I say with the appropriate barrel of salt. Tenkera looks most suitable for stream and small river fishing because of the short casting distances. It looks like it would be fun in situations where you could stalk fish along the shore, but could otherwise prove frustrating.

        in reply to: Thanks Trailblazers #87993
        Brian Curtis
        Keymaster

          In high lakes, fish can live for a long time, depending on the lake. I caught a high lake RB that was 13 years old and WDFW bios have aged them older then that. In shallow, warm lakes where fish grow quickly they might only live 3 or 4 years. But in high, cold lakes where they grow slowly they can live much longer.

          If you are catching 40 fish an hour then it is likely they are naturally reproducing and have overpopulated the lake.

          in reply to: Trail Blazer scholarship program #89266
          Brian Curtis
          Keymaster

            The list of chairpeople hasn’t been updated for 2010.

            in reply to: Big Alpine Trout: #84851
            Brian Curtis
            Keymaster

              I’m a little late with this reply to your post, Allison. For some reason I can’t get a larger size version of your pic, but they look more like RB in the thumbnail. The one in my last post was a Yellowstone CT.

              in reply to: Big Alpine Trout: #84850
              Brian Curtis
              Keymaster

                Here’s one from the vault. I caught this one in the Winds back in ’79.

                in reply to: interest in trailblazers and highlakers #84606
                Brian Curtis
                Keymaster

                  I’ll send you an email.

                  in reply to: Illabot Creek #87041
                  Brian Curtis
                  Keymaster

                    Wow, that’ll permanently change a lot up there. If the legel description is to be believed it looks like they will repair the Hilt Creek slide and close it past where the Illabot Peaks Rd takes off.

                    in reply to: Request for Trail Boat Knowlege #88198
                    Brian Curtis
                    Keymaster

                      Alpacka recently came out with a new lighter weight boat called the Scout. It still isn’t as light as one of ours, but it is the best product I’m aware of. I’d recommend making your own hand paddles and their inflation bag isn’t as light as it should be, so that’s another place to potentially lighten up.

                      in reply to: I found it!!!!!!!!!!!!! #87933
                      Brian Curtis
                      Keymaster

                        They’ll still show spawning colors and have eggs or sperm even if they can’t reproduce successfully.

                        in reply to: I found it!!!!!!!!!!!!! #87931
                        Brian Curtis
                        Keymaster

                          Wow! Those are beauties!

                          in reply to: Senate Hearing on NCNP fish stocking bill scheduled #87405
                          Brian Curtis
                          Keymaster

                            Here are the members of the Subcommittee on National Parks followed by the state they represent. These are the Senators that need to hear from us this week. If you know someone who is a constituent of one of these Senators please have them contact their Senator.

                            Democratic Subcommittee Members

                            Mark Udall (Chairman)-CO
                            Byron L. Dorgan-ND
                            Mary L. Landrieu-LA
                            Robert Menendez-NJ
                            Blanche Lincoln-AR
                            Bernard Sanders (I)-VT
                            Evan Bayh-IN
                            Debbie Stabenow-MI

                            Republican Subcommittee Members

                            Richard Burr-NC
                            John Barrasso-WY
                            Sam Brownback-KS
                            John McCain-AZ
                            Jim Bunning-KY
                            Bob Corker-TN

                            Jeff Bingaman (ex officio member)-NM
                            Lisa Murkowski (ex officio member)-AK

                            in reply to: AP: Fish stocking in North Cascades lakes set to end #86562
                            Brian Curtis
                            Keymaster

                              It is sort of counter-intuitive that naturally reproducing fish might need to be removed from a lake. But when you get too many fish in a lake they wipe out their food supply. That is bad for animals native to the lake from zooplankton right up to amphibians and it is bad for the fishing because the fish can’t get over 8 or 10 inches long and they can end up very skinny. The trout will grow reasonably quickly for about 3 years until they sexually mature. At that point all energy will go into producing gametes and spawning before it will go into growth so if there isn’t surplus food they stop growing.

                              So I agree that we need to do something about these spawning populations. But I think we should come back with non-reproducing fish in low densities that don’t harm native biota. That’s the portion of this management plan they are shutting down.

                              in reply to: AP: Fish stocking in North Cascades lakes set to end #86559
                              Brian Curtis
                              Keymaster

                                Here’s the first post I’ve seen celebrating the 1 July deadline passing at National Parks Traveler. Lots of problems with this summary. Here’s one of my favorites:

                                “There is a small group of people who are very passionate about this, and they got the impression that starting today on July 2 we were going to be out there using poisons to remove fish from all of the lakes. And that’s not happening,” he said. “The principal action that we’re taking at this stage in the game is we’re doing nothing. By that I mean the most important step that we can take in terms of ecological restoration of these lakes is simply to stop introducing non-native species.”

                                And the very next sentence after saying they are doing nothing is:

                                Ashley Rawhouser, the park’s aquatic biologist, said crews will focus their efforts on removing fish from 27 lakes.

                                Although they are celebrating the deadline passing, t he fact is that Congress can still direct the park to allow fish stocking. We need to make sure our Senators know that. Letters are more important then ever.

                                in reply to: Otters #87272
                                Brian Curtis
                                Keymaster

                                  I’ve seem ’em.

                                  I live on Hood Canal and we see there here all the time. It amazes me that their habitat can extend all the way from sea level to high in the mountains. I haven’t seen them in high lakes enough, however, to correlate good or bad fishing to their presence.

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