11-14-2008, 07:35 PM
A lot of the browns spawn that 1/2 mile below the dam.
I personally don't fish many fish during the spawn and that's just a personal preference - nothing more. With that being said unless you bring the Idaho Falls marching band with you and have them perform on that section you aren't going to do anything the over all brown trout spawn.
I'm not being an ass here- just stating plain biological facts- I don't walk over the redds and they are very easy to spot- those clean areas over the gravel where everything else isn't most likely are redds. Here is a link to some bull trout redd pictures.
[url "http://www.fws.gov/oregonfwo/FieldOffices/LaGrande/BullTroutMonitoring/default.asp"][/url]http://www.fws.gov/oregonfwo/FieldOffices/LaGrande/BullTroutMonitoring/default.asp[/url]
Now something like the Bull trout tramping over those would be detrimental but the prolific browns- you aren't going to hurt the over-all spawn 1 iota- you might though get into an argument with some other fisherman.
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I personally don't fish many fish during the spawn and that's just a personal preference - nothing more. With that being said unless you bring the Idaho Falls marching band with you and have them perform on that section you aren't going to do anything the over all brown trout spawn.
I'm not being an ass here- just stating plain biological facts- I don't walk over the redds and they are very easy to spot- those clean areas over the gravel where everything else isn't most likely are redds. Here is a link to some bull trout redd pictures.
[url "http://www.fws.gov/oregonfwo/FieldOffices/LaGrande/BullTroutMonitoring/default.asp"][/url]http://www.fws.gov/oregonfwo/FieldOffices/LaGrande/BullTroutMonitoring/default.asp[/url]
Now something like the Bull trout tramping over those would be detrimental but the prolific browns- you aren't going to hurt the over-all spawn 1 iota- you might though get into an argument with some other fisherman.
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