Poll : A New Fish

[Fly_Guy]

Just fun to think about - another member posted a similar question on the Taneycomo forum. Basically, this question could also be, 'What fish do you love to eat?'

[Fly_Guy]

Thanks for the responses guys - being realistic, most of these choices wouldn't work well with the river the way it is. I figured the most popular choice would be the other two trout (which would be kind of cool - and capable of being done). However, imagine catching a "lunker" 40 inch pike with your five year old nephew! My personal choice was walleye simply for the food value. If you could dredge out the river and make it average 15 foot deeper, I think a mixture of walleye/smallmouth/pike/yellow perch would be both fun and would be a good Canada patch for me until I can get back. It would be possible (but not economical - imagine the cost). The cool spring would be a great mimic of northern waters.

[Trav]

It is a trout park!

Walleye wont work my friend. They can run 60 miles in one day. A trout park would just have them running down stream into Tablerock.

Even to have cutthroat would be an issue, just ask Phils response when he suggested that in Taney.

[Fly_Guy]

Fair point trav - they would probably have to stock them upstream once a week or so - but something would have to be done about the log dams to satisfy those 60 mile a day walleye apparently introduced from Kenya However - I contend that trout park trout are so far removed from wild trout, that you could do the same thing for other species. The most reasonable would be something like crappie I suppose. If you could make larger pools... just dreaming of course.

[jayhawk73]

I could be wrong here, but aren't crappie voracious eaters? Wouldn't they decimate the fry and fingerling trout populations in the river? Also do crappie do well in swift moving water? I've always thought of them as pond and lake type species.

I've always wanted to fish for brookies so bring them on!!

[timsfly]

cutthroat are already in the parks, they have been breeding them with the rainbows for years.

[timsfly]

Brook trout have been caught out of Roaring River, I have one on the wall that is 16.5" long and weighed 1 1/2 pounds, biggest Brookie ever caught in Missouri, accordiing to the MDC.

[Trav]

Was waiting for Timsfly to comment! Being he is the roaring river expert!

[timsfly]

Let me say there are no real cutthroat in the parks, just their DNA, they have been using milt from cutthroat for awhile now, or so I was told a few years ago, by a MDC hatchery employee.

[mhall02]

Brook trout have been caught out of Roaring River, I have one on the wall that is 16.5" long and weighed 1 1/2 pounds, biggest Brookie ever caught in Missouri, accordiing to the MDC.

Wow, where did that come from? I have never seen a Brookie there, and I grew up fishing that stream. Best I recall, I remember seeing some big carp years ago in the first hole in the fly area, where the river bends. I always wondered where those came from. I vote for more Bookies!!