05-02-2012, 02:18 AM
WHY?
Here are a few of my thoughts.
Diversity. Have you ever fished Henry's? It is awesome to be able to catch different species. Both bows and cutts tend to occupy the same areas and tend to stay more off-shore, weedbeds and sandy shoreline. Tigers stay shallow, get up in the rocks and attack. They are also fall spawners. While we are at it, I would love to see sterile brookies and browns thrown in the mix.
Chub control - Tigers would attack chubs in a different way in different areas. Can't hurt. I don't think there would hardly be any predation of kokes by the tigers.
Sport - I personally love tiger trout and would fish strawberry 3x as much as I do now if they were in there. They are aggressive, fight well, and are beautiful fish when they get big and during the spawn.
Cost - Don't know. The rainbow fishing there has been sub-par for a while. I would say plant less but even bigger bows, lots and lots of small tigers, and lets throw in some sterile brookies for fun. All I know is that if this were done, angling hours would probably double.
I just don't understand why we seem to be against diversity of species when the species in question are sterile and are great trash fish predators. I would love to see tiger muskie, tiger trout and sterile brookies put into waters all over the state instead of rainbows. My opinion is that most trophy/big fish fishermen feel this way while most meat hunters prefer bows.
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Here are a few of my thoughts.
Diversity. Have you ever fished Henry's? It is awesome to be able to catch different species. Both bows and cutts tend to occupy the same areas and tend to stay more off-shore, weedbeds and sandy shoreline. Tigers stay shallow, get up in the rocks and attack. They are also fall spawners. While we are at it, I would love to see sterile brookies and browns thrown in the mix.
Chub control - Tigers would attack chubs in a different way in different areas. Can't hurt. I don't think there would hardly be any predation of kokes by the tigers.
Sport - I personally love tiger trout and would fish strawberry 3x as much as I do now if they were in there. They are aggressive, fight well, and are beautiful fish when they get big and during the spawn.
Cost - Don't know. The rainbow fishing there has been sub-par for a while. I would say plant less but even bigger bows, lots and lots of small tigers, and lets throw in some sterile brookies for fun. All I know is that if this were done, angling hours would probably double.
I just don't understand why we seem to be against diversity of species when the species in question are sterile and are great trash fish predators. I would love to see tiger muskie, tiger trout and sterile brookies put into waters all over the state instead of rainbows. My opinion is that most trophy/big fish fishermen feel this way while most meat hunters prefer bows.
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