Stock Triploid Trout In Taney?

[laker67]

I know if I had access to these fish I would be out there everyday trying to break records.

I say put them in there and lets us start Exploiting the resource.

"Expoiting the resource", sounds like a fly in the making. Vanven said that the triploid fish would quickly gooble up the smaller resident fish. Wow! That would mean a big fish on every hook up.

I agree with you, put them in taney and let's start fishing. Several other states have already jumped on the bandwagon. I think that California's lastest 28 pound state record was a triploid rainbow. Michigan and new york are raising seeforellen browns. That 41 pound brown was a seeforellen. If there were a classification for midget rainbows, then missouri would hold the record with their McCloud stain. Since triploids do not go through the spawning ritual, the upper lake would have no more of an advantage than the lower lake.

[Brian K. Shaffer]

Phil - to my understanding.. the browns they got at the hatchery never took... not in the conventional hatchery setting.. they all died out rather rapidly and would not ' take ' .. in so many certain words.

I was there with Bill and James one day looking at them... they were very wild and very difficult... they would bash there heads in the walls of the 10ft round plastic ' raceway ' they were being held. (that was when the numbers were way down)

If these are the same fish I am thinking about.. only like 36 survived out of 2000.

Brian

[Buzz]

Question::

If these triploids are the eating machines that they say they are, how would this affect the browns in Taney? Would the competition be more than the browns could take? Or, would it just be another rainbow mixed in with all of the rest?