Dead Browns

[laker67]

you and joed been drinking out of the same bottle

[Jerry Rapp]

huh? Taney is a state funded put and take trout fishery. Trout were never native in Missouri. It is what it is though.

[Phil Lilley]

I asked Shane Bush about what he thought about the dead browns. He said it's mainly attributed to low DO and hook mortality too. Browns are more apt to succumb to excessive handling, being fought too hard or both, compared to rainbows. He said is a larger numbers of browns in the lake this year which means more browns hooked, released and die. He doesn't seemed to be surprised or alarmed by it (my observation).

[ruthead]

So where does one go to get educated on the proper handling of a Brown when caught in low DO conditions? I understand the excessive handling but could probably use some direction on one being fought to hard.

[Dylan Cluver]

Native or non native doesn't matter. The fact is we care about our fish and people need to be educated and practice c&r properly. I hate when a guy catches a 18 inch brown and picks him up by his gil plate so he can have his picture taken. That may have been the way to do it years ago but it isn't now.

[laker67]

In response to ruthead, landing a fish is more of a gentle persuasion, and not the normal bend me around backwards, drag me into the shallows, and get a quick unhook so I can do it again as quickly as possible.

[ruthead]

Total browns I've ever caught can be counted on ur fingers. 18 years of bows. Hate seeing a fish floatin. I guess I'd just hate it if I tried to gently persuade on in too long and it builds up too much LA. I guess the part of ur statement "drag me into the shallows" would be the key??

[laker67]

trust me, i have landed hundreds of big fish with gentle persuasion, and it works.

[Wayne SW/MO]

huh? Taney is a state funded put and take trout fishery. Trout were never native in Missouri. It is what it is though.

It's mitigation Jerry. They could have stocked smallies if they had understood the fish, but they didn't. It's now seen as an overprotected native fish. When they change the elevation of 3 reservoirs to accommodate a fish that has lived happily in their new home for 60 years, and even produced a world record, because they believe they are no longer happy, you know they have status.

[Micheal Kyle]

They did stock land locked salmon back in the 70's to bad they did not keep it up I wonder how people would react stepping on all the caucuses from those fish:)

I will have to agree that Taney is Missouri Largest Trout Park and it will be managed as such until we get something changed about the regulations on Browns.

I can honestly say that I have caught a lot of big browns down on Taney at night with my biggest being 18lbs and to my knowledge they were all alive and healthy when I released them. They have all came on streamers or dead drifting big eggs at night. When I catch a big fish I take the time to make sure it swims off after we take a pic of the fish evn if it takes 30-45 min.

I use a net just to land the fish then I take the fish out of the net so that the fish slime is not rubbed off on the net. To me a net will hurt fish more than they help the fish if you leave the fish in the net and let it bounce around. I take and hold the fish by the tail and gently move it back and forth in the water to get the O2 flowing again. Lactic acid and no fish slime is bad for a fish I think of the fish slime as a fish protective layer if you remove it you subject the fish to diseases then if you don’t take the time to revive the fish with O2 and leave it in the net you might as well take it up and eat it so it does not go to waste.