This past week i enjoyed a few days of fishing with my brother (Randy) and Matt Guymon from Localwaters website as well as Paul Swint from William Joseph. While we had an absolute perfect fishing trip I find myself wondering if it will be possible to enjoy these things in the future. Im not an the activist type, im just a fisherman, thats it. While on our trip our host Steve Stoner told us about the forest services efforts to start draining lakes and removing trout, specifically Brookies. Supposedly they want to return everything to how it used to be and reintroduce more native fish in place of brookies. Let me just note that my oppinions are my own and that those who were with me may or may not share them. These lakes are beautiful and just fine how they are, they provide some awsome fishing oppertunities. enviros have taken our 4 wheeler trails, our oil, our water for crops in california, and apparently now they are going to get our fish. I love our Cutts but i dont want to catch them everywhere i go. The Uintahs and Boulders could have many of the thousands of species of trout. It could be one of the coolest places to fish ever. We should be looking to make the fishing more interesting in these Lakes where fish are locked in. Now if there are brook trout that are stunted or that are harming something else im good with fixing the problem. But brookies in high lakes that are trapped are not hurting anything and they provide us with the oppertunty to catch a beautiful fish. The lake we were catching 20 brookies in the forest service is about ready to drain. I think its a big lose if this all happens. Im not looking forward to catching Cutts everywhere. I want variety. Meanwhile here are a few pics of what we may lose. Huge thanks to Steve Stoner, Boulder Mountain Guide, he made this the perfect trip. Also please let me know what im doing right and wrong with the photos, im trying to get better but i need feedback.
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you and matt killed it once again. great fish and i couldn't agree more with what you said. cutties are my fav. species of trout but it's nice to catch some good brookies as well.
ReplyDeleteHeard about this last week when I was up there share the same feelings as you do on the new plan with the fish. I ran into old Stoner last week, how is he as a guide? Seemed like a really cool guy.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the posts guys, Stoner was cool as heck and he put us on the fish we wanted, we had a lot of fun. It was a great couple of day.
ReplyDeleteHell Ken those are some awesome fish and I cant believe they want to drain these lakes. I myself feel the same way as everyone else. The only problem I see with your photos is that I'm not catching my share! Looks like an awesome trip!!!
ReplyDeleteThe pics are really cool looking, I think just keep mixing it up and you will continue to have great pictures. I was wondering if there is anybody doing anything to stop fish and game from draining the lakes? After all it is our dollar at work through licences, taxes and whatnot that is paying for this and we should have a lot of pull of what happens in the state wildlife management. Hope to get involved if there is anything that we can do.
ReplyDeleteI know the locals have had some town halls, but im wondering the same thing, what can we do, im hoping someone who has some good info will see my blog and let us know what we can do. It seems like so much is being done without the voice of the people these days.
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