sunfighter
5/30/2015 5:40:00 AMsquawfish,I still throw them in the bushes behind me.I was raised not to release them alive,they can decimate a trout and steelhead fishery.
DjButler
5/30/2015 8:08:00 AMThat's true sunfighter, only to a certain extent. They have been living together for many years. Cutthroat trout will also eat steelhead fry and salmon fry. Does that mean we kill all cutthroat as well? It's survival of the fittest out there. Humans are always trying to control Mother Nature and we just can't. Let the ecosystem take its course.
CarpMouth
5/31/2015 9:42:00 AMAnother ditto. Unless the State is trying to "correct" an invasive species, nothing needs to be killed by us. Nothing irritates me more than the "purists" who complain about the bass and trout in the same lake, and believe all the bass must go. Can't tell you how many fry have been in the trouts' belly. They co-exist and if the DNR didn't think it was working they wouldn't continue to stock the lake with varieties of trout while putting slot limits on the largemouth bass.