Diversification of Taneycomo Trout

[MoCarp]

It would be interesting and more enjoyable if Taney had a more diverse trout population, Browns have done well, and to supplement that it would be interesting to have other species that would mirror the trophy aspects......... it could be funded with a trophy trout stamp initiative which funds would be used to augment trophy trout potential of lake Taneycomo

[MoCarp]

The tiger trout (Salmo trutta × Salvelinus fontinalis) is a sterile, intergeneric hybrid of the brown trout(Salmo trutta) and the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis).

 

[MoCarp]

 the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis).

[MoCarp]

The cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii)

[Al Agnew]

I love having both browns and rainbows in places like the Current, Meramec, and North Fork, and I love cutthroats in their native streams, but to be honest I can't see much advantage to having either a sterile hybrid or having brook or cutthroat trout alongside browns and rainbows in places where none of them are native.  Purely as game fish, I think brookies and cutthroat are a little inferior to browns and rainbows.  And they occupy the same ecological niche.  So bringing in another species would probably result in lowering the numbers of browns and rainbows without adding much to overall trout biomass.

[Ham]

It's interesting having a shot at all four species, but honestly, it would be hard for me to argue for them to be stocked in Taneycomo.

the Cutts want little bugs on the surface. We don't have well established hatches. Cutts seem to struggle getting to 12 inches. 

They put a token amount of Brookies down here. They stay closest to the cold water. Their colors aren't great and the get loved To death before they get very large. 

 

[snagged in outlet 3]

I believe they stocked triploid browns in Taney

[Johnsfolly]

1 hour ago, Al Agnew said:

I love having both browns and rainbows in places like the Current, Meramec, and North Fork, and I love cutthroats in their native streams, but to be honest I can't see much advantage to having either a sterile hybrid or having brook or cutthroat trout alongside browns and rainbows in places where none of them are native.  Purely as game fish, I think brookies and cutthroat are a little inferior to browns and rainbows.  And they occupy the same ecological niche.  So bringing in another species would probably result in lowering the numbers of browns and rainbows without adding much to overall trout biomass.

I know that this must be unexpected from a guy like myself that likes to catch a variety of species, but Al has covered my concerns. I would not be an advocate of adding additional species of trout to Taneycomo. I also am not a big advocate of introduction of the triploid browns. I know that they are already in the lake and probably would enjoy catching a double digit brown that would likely be a triploid. I would prefer to not keep messing with these ecosystems.

[mikeak]

It's fine just like it is. For sure don't want another stamp to buy for trout,but I could probably get behind a Carp stamp.

[skeeter]

13 hours ago, MoCarp said:

It would be interesting and more enjoyable if Taney had a more diverse trout population, Browns have done well, and to supplement that it would be interesting to have other species that would mirror the trophy aspects......... it could be funded with a trophy trout stamp initiative which funds would be used to augment trophy trout potential of lake Taneycomo

If you recall, they stocked Steelhead in Taney in the 70's.  Caught a few.