09-27-2023, 02:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-27-2023, 02:38 PM by wormandbobber.)
https://www.facebook.com/UtahDWR/videos/...652328143/
I like this idea and think it is a win/win plan without any real risk involved. If the tiger musky don't do well, they will die and the brook trout will continue to reproduce and be small. If the tiger musky do their job and eat brook trout, they will grow fairly large and provide some different opportunity in a high elevation setting. The nice thing about the tiger musky is that they are not fertile and cannot reproduce, so if they don't seem to be helping improve brook trout size, they simply won't be restocked. IF by some miracle they do eat all the brook trout (which won't happen), the DWR could stock different trout species that won't reproduce and could grow larger. As the lakes are now, they are full of stunted brook trout and see little use.
FWIW, prior to the illegal stocking of brook trout back into Moosman, it was a very good cutthroat lake for 20+ years and even held the state record tiger trout for a short time. But, in the past 10 years or so it has had nothing but dinky brook trout. It is capable of being much more than what it is now. I am excited for the future. I also know that sizes have improved in Moosman since tiger musky were introduced. I am just not sure if that is the reason...
The studies done on this show pretty clearly that tiger muskies can potentially improve brook trout sizes...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...15.1035467
I like this idea and think it is a win/win plan without any real risk involved. If the tiger musky don't do well, they will die and the brook trout will continue to reproduce and be small. If the tiger musky do their job and eat brook trout, they will grow fairly large and provide some different opportunity in a high elevation setting. The nice thing about the tiger musky is that they are not fertile and cannot reproduce, so if they don't seem to be helping improve brook trout size, they simply won't be restocked. IF by some miracle they do eat all the brook trout (which won't happen), the DWR could stock different trout species that won't reproduce and could grow larger. As the lakes are now, they are full of stunted brook trout and see little use.
FWIW, prior to the illegal stocking of brook trout back into Moosman, it was a very good cutthroat lake for 20+ years and even held the state record tiger trout for a short time. But, in the past 10 years or so it has had nothing but dinky brook trout. It is capable of being much more than what it is now. I am excited for the future. I also know that sizes have improved in Moosman since tiger musky were introduced. I am just not sure if that is the reason...
The studies done on this show pretty clearly that tiger muskies can potentially improve brook trout sizes...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...15.1035467