03-07-2014, 02:58 PM
I really don't have much information about age of the macs in Fish Lake. I know the aquatics guys have collected scales on some large fish and they probably have a good handle of the age of a fish this size.
My totally uneducated guess would be about 14-18 years old based only on some talk I heard years ago about fish growth in Fish Lake. One of the biologists from the Price DWR office spent some time over there netting lakers and the big splake. I know the splake were growing very well back in the late 90's and early 2000's.
Perhaps PBH could chime in. His brother is now the head fish squeezer for the Southern Region and I know he is familiar with Fish Lake.
Mike
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My totally uneducated guess would be about 14-18 years old based only on some talk I heard years ago about fish growth in Fish Lake. One of the biologists from the Price DWR office spent some time over there netting lakers and the big splake. I know the splake were growing very well back in the late 90's and early 2000's.
Perhaps PBH could chime in. His brother is now the head fish squeezer for the Southern Region and I know he is familiar with Fish Lake.
Mike
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