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Originally Posted by Drewski Canuck
I fished the Missouri river downstream of Holter Dam near Craig, Montana last June.
The Montana experience with whirling disease was 15 years ago, with the similar 90 % die off. What trout where remaining was resistant to whirling disease. Plain and simple.
The solution is really very realistic. Stock the infected water bodies with trout taken from the resistant stocks in Montana. The disease will run its course, and the population will rebound quickly as the resistant fish fill the gap left from the non resistant fish.
Drewski
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Drewski, You Nailed It!
But, lets "overthink" everything and take measures that are labor intensive, more costly and questionable. IMO.
The only way they are going to be able to "confirm" that their solution is and has been successful is to stock fry into a filled lake and monitor the results. THAT should take a couple of decades the way these things work now! I agree, it will be the end of fishing Parks lakes unless you like catching suckers or daces.
Soon, we will see Parks Biologists sitting on the shores, with a hair driers in their hands drying out the soil because the spore NEED moisture so this would be a GREAT solution!
FHD