Thread: Good bye trout..what a fricken joke!!

Originally Posted by MightyBoosh

It's been an issue up here for a few years now and on our only decent trout fishery, Kai Iwi Lakes. Some amateurish research from a PhD student was taken to prove that trout reduce the number of galaxids. Fishing was going to be stopped (actually, I don't think they can do that), then the lakes weren't going to be restocked which is effectively the same thing, then it was back on with stocking, then we don't know again. I really wish we could get our shit together on indigenous vs. game fish/animals. As an aside, I have fished those lakes regularly for five years and not once I have seen anybody whitebaiting. So what is the issue?

To be fair those lakes are a closed system, so a balance does need to be monitored there