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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: The scout on April 30, 2020, 03:59:02 PM

Title: Over 400,000 trout to riffe lake
Post by: The scout on April 30, 2020, 03:59:02 PM: Just read an article about it, guess they were going to be hauled to the dump? Not sure if they were meant to go to different lakes or what. Can’t figure out how to post the link. I live on a lake that hasn’t been planted yet and I’m not sure why pretty much every other lake in my county has been even the little lakes and ponds. Everything online says it’s pretty much business as usual as far as the trout stocking goes, but obviously not.
Title: Re: Over 400,000 trout to riffe lake
Post by: Igor on April 30, 2020, 04:06:06 PM: Riffe Lake Stocked With Unexpected 405,000 Triploids From Cooke

http://nwsportsmanmag.com/riffe-lake-stocked-with-unexpected-405000-triploids-from-cooke/
Title: Re: Over 400,000 trout to riffe lake
Post by: Stein on April 30, 2020, 04:30:00 PM: That's strange, I didn't realize triploids could survive in the salt. Good for them for making it work, wish I lived closer.
Title: Re: Over 400,000 trout to riffe lake
Post by: Bill W on April 30, 2020, 04:30:17 PM: shoot... if I was a westsider I'd fish westside.
Title: Re: Over 400,000 trout to riffe lake
Post by: Bullkllr on April 30, 2020, 04:47:25 PM: Cool they could get that done.

Interesting to know what Tacoma Power must have paid? And where WDFW was on the whole thing.

They're only around 6 inches long right now, so...wait a bit.
Title: Re: Over 400,000 trout to riffe lake
Post by: HntnFsh on April 30, 2020, 05:16:11 PM: Quote from: Bullkllr on April 30, 2020, 04:47:25 PM
Cool they could get that done.

Interesting to know what Tacoma Power must have paid? And where WDFW was on the whole thing.

They're only around 6 inches long right now, so...wait a bit.

I could double check but I dont think TPU paid anything. My understanding is that these fish were going to be destroyed if they didnt find a place for them.
Title: Re: Over 400,000 trout to riffe lake
Post by: Bullkllr on April 30, 2020, 05:20:21 PM: Quote from: HntnFsh on April 30, 2020, 05:16:11 PM
Quote from: Bullkllr on April 30, 2020, 04:47:25 PM
Cool they could get that done.

Interesting to know what Tacoma Power must have paid? And where WDFW was on the whole thing.

They're only around 6 inches long right now, so...wait a bit.

I could double check but I dont think TPU paid anything. My understanding is that these fish were going to be destroyed if they didnt find a place for them.
Maybe not :dunno:
Maybe just a tax write-off for Cooke. Had to be some expenses involved just getting the fish there.
Title: Re: Over 400,000 trout to riffe lake
Post by: Stein on April 30, 2020, 05:36:29 PM: Quote from: Bullkllr on April 30, 2020, 04:47:25 PM
Cool they could get that done.

Interesting to know what Tacoma Power must have paid? And where WDFW was on the whole thing.

They're only around 6 inches long right now, so...wait a bit.

They didn't get in the way, so there is progress at least.
Title: Re: Over 400,000 trout to riffe lake
Post by: Boss .300 winmag on April 30, 2020, 07:07:34 PM: :tup:
Title: Re: Over 400,000 trout to riffe lake
Post by: toothfangclaw on May 14, 2020, 01:56:08 PM: I learned something new today! I didn't even know what triploid meant. :hello: :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: Over 400,000 trout to riffe lake
Post by: sagemd on May 22, 2020, 04:09:50 PM: Is this good news?
Don't the triploids eat and out compete the Kokanee?
Riffe has a good Kokanee fishery?
Title: Re: Over 400,000 trout to riffe lake
Post by: HntnFsh on May 22, 2020, 05:05:44 PM: No Kokanee in Riffe they are landlocked silvers. I dont think the triploids will be much competition. I think they will probably end up about the size of the silvers. They dont get fed like the triploids we usually think of on the east side.
Title: Re: Over 400,000 trout to riffe lake
Post by: Oh Mah on May 22, 2020, 05:08:58 PM: How many years for them to grow to full size in that lake with so many?
Title: Re: Over 400,000 trout to riffe lake
Post by: Alchase on May 22, 2020, 07:49:24 PM: Quote from: HntnFsh on May 22, 2020, 05:05:44 PM
No Kokanee in Riffe they are landlocked silvers. I don't think the triploids will be much competition. I think they will probably end up about the size of the silvers. They dont get fed like the triploids we usually think of on the east side.

And a few land locked Chinook as well.

Trout grow fairly quick in Riffe. Those Trips, were around six inches already.
By Labor day day they will be pan sized trout. Next year they will be pretty nice.
Title: Re: Over 400,000 trout to riffe lake
Post by: Oh Mah on May 22, 2020, 08:02:47 PM: :tup:
Title: Re: Over 400,000 trout to riffe lake
Post by: CastleRocker on May 22, 2020, 08:05:42 PM: What happened to the Kokanee that used to be there? I used to catch them with my Grampa. We would throw back the coho, and keep the Kokanee. Of course, that was awhile back...we still called it "Davisson Lake" back then.
Title: Re: Over 400,000 trout to riffe lake
Post by: Alchase on May 22, 2020, 08:21:48 PM: Quote from: CastleRocker on May 22, 2020, 08:05:42 PM
What happened to the Kokanee that used to be there? I used to catch them with my Grampa. We would throw back the coho, and keep the Kokanee. Of course, that was awhile back...we still called it "Davisson Lake" back then.

It was renamed in 1976. I have been fishing there since 1980, never heard nor seen any Kokanee.
That does not mean they were not there before then though.