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Old 01-16-2013, 08:45 PM
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Looks like your doing your part to save this stream at least, as no one else seems concerned.

Only fished it once, not a stellar day, plenty of other brown trout streams that are closer and have fished much better for me.

Not sure what you want us to do with this information? just to open our eyes to it? or to try and get us to step up as a community and save this creek?

*some food for thought:
1. brookies may be out-competing the browns for limited resources. CULL necessary?
2. brookies may be out-competing the browns for quality spawning grounds. CULL necissary?
3. Have you noticed any white fungus on the browns, like there are on the browns in the Bow?
4. Perhaps just a bad winter of anchor ice or something formed and killed a couple generations, or not enough suitable wintering holes.
5. any water quality tests done, other than the excess nutrients noted.
6. have you contacted Fisheries and Oceans Canada instead of just F &W and some local game clubs.
7. Have you been catching any juvenile browns, or large spawning browns?
8. Set some night cameras to check if predators (mink, otter) are frequent.
9. What was Trout Unlimited response or some of these bio's

It is never just one factor that causes a population to crash, somewhere back in the 90's a series of events or factors plaguing this creek and is continuing to do so. Im not sure if it is just as simple as lack of money going into this creek.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention,
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