02-24-2019, 03:26 AM
Interesting project. I love backpacking in the Uintahs and those little side streams pack loads of brookies early in the spring. Kids can catch hundreds of 6-10" fish in a day with nothing but a worm/hook under a bobber. If it works it would be nice to catch Cutts instead of brookies in some stream systems up there.
I have to say I'm a bit skeptical of their ability to purge brookies out of any given High Uintah stream system. Any stream / river of any size up there has so many smaller side streams feeding into it I find it hard to believe they could treat one system, much less 4, 100%. Only takes a couple surviving minnows to start the whole population again. One side stream just 20 yards long, of which there are a dozen per mile of river up there, could easily be a refuge for hundreds of minnows.
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I have to say I'm a bit skeptical of their ability to purge brookies out of any given High Uintah stream system. Any stream / river of any size up there has so many smaller side streams feeding into it I find it hard to believe they could treat one system, much less 4, 100%. Only takes a couple surviving minnows to start the whole population again. One side stream just 20 yards long, of which there are a dozen per mile of river up there, could easily be a refuge for hundreds of minnows.
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