Long Lake, WA
Oct 21, 2021 19:56:54 #
Oct 21, 2021 19:58:36 #
DBean: I don't know what a triploid is, nor ever seen one. Can you post a picture some time? Just Sayin...RJS
Oct 21, 2021 20:13:24 #
DBean
Loc: Spokane, WA
Triploids are a sterile breed of rainbow trout that do nothing but swim and eat. Small ones are 15” but they can exceed 20lbs.
Oct 21, 2021 20:19:14 #
Hmmm...that is very interesting! Sounds like a genetic strain that is hatchery raised? Never heard of them...also glad that you are not trying to catch "triffids!"
Oct 21, 2021 20:56:07 #
Foodfisher
Loc: SO. Cal coast
Sounds like what's called lightning trout here. Hatchery bred and connot reproduce.
Oct 22, 2021 06:11:44 #
Foodfisher wrote:
Sounds like what's called lightning trout here. Hatchery bred and connot reproduce.
I believe Tiger Trout are like that also.
Oct 22, 2021 09:00:17 #
DBean
Loc: Spokane, WA
They are initially raised in large pens on the Columbia River then released there and in Long Lake in the spring. By fall they have already reached 15” or more. Good fighters and superb eating if you like trout. Correct. They are similar to tiger trout in that they are sterile.
Oct 22, 2021 09:17:47 #
Foodfisher
Loc: SO. Cal coast
DBean wrote:
They are initially raised in large pens on the Columbia River then released there and in Long Lake in the spring. By fall they have already reached 15” or more. Good fighters and superb eating if you like trout. Correct. They are similar to tiger trout in that they are sterile.
Don't know why I typed tiger, I meant lightning trout. They are sterile also.
Oct 22, 2021 17:20:01 #
Captain Lahti
Loc: Kennewick, WA
They also include hatchery produced sterile Muskies and maybe Northern a Pike that are created and released into lakes to prey on an over abundance of smaller fish like Perch but not able to breed. You’d call them tiger Muskies.
Oct 22, 2021 19:34:25 #
harleypiker
Loc: WA
Northern pike plus true muskelunge = sterile tiger muskies. They are valuable for reducing scrap fish populations here in WA such as squaw fish. They would also reduce over populated perch populations but WA Dept of Fish and Wildlife denies they will eat perch (which are eating up trout food). MN DNR has a study on Lake Miltona showing perch are 40% of muskie diets there.
Pike are pike; not sterile.
Pike are pike; not sterile.
Oct 25, 2021 18:50:04 #
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