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no where, i mean NO WHERE.. do you see them suing odfw over the excessive dumping of hatchery rainbows into leaburg lake, after all wouldnt you think the hatchery rainbow INTERBREED with the famous mckenzie redside rainbows but no where do you see a lawsuit there
"It's Business not Personal" Having to deal with the fed, state and local regs on a daily basis in my humble opinion people either do not have the big picture information on the water management plan or are emotionally biased. To keep this post short here is my layman term summary: The McKenzie (all rivers in Oregon) cannot sustain the number of native fish to equal the demand of the people who fish it. People stop catching fish they stop fishing and they bring in millions upon millions of dollars to this community.
So if individuals want to eliminate the stocking of hatchery fish on parts of the river, I would be happy to do that....all they have to do is give me the 467 million dollars that I need to keep the boat landings, stream restoration, habitat management, roads, flood plane, dam safety, river quality and the thousand of other things that are done so that people can drive their cars up river launch their boats and access the whole river.
It's not the response I want to share but it's reality and it's not "Personal it's Business". So the next time you see those people fishing for hatchery fish thank them on your way to the non-hatchery section, because they are paying for your ability to access that section of river.
I'm pretty sure all the truck trout are sterile. Most of them are so dumb that they are caught quite quickly anyway. Keep the stockers in the river please, I like walking across the street to catch a limit.
I'll be fly flossing for springers on the mckenzie this Friday but I have no desire to see hatchery fish eliminated. Joking of course about flossing...I like to snag them in the tail.
In all seriousness though, it's tough but they can be enticed to bite a fly. I've had it happen a couple times.
This graph below shows what happens to a section of the mckenzie when bait fishing and stocker trout are removed.
Whatever you put on a normal hook should be allowed. The smart fish will watch it go right by. Survival of the fitest. Put that DuPont spinner back in your tackle box...that is cheatin'!Honestly I don't have a problem with them getting rid of the bait completely cause god knows how many native redsides I've hooked using sandshrimp but good ole native society peeps say the native redsides don't like sandshrimp. . I call total bs.. but back to the subject.. I can bet there won't be a native springer population in the mckenzie in 15-20 years if they abandon the hatchery program... Think about it.. where do they get there hatchery fish from? Grown in a lab?... or native fish