I know this will be hard to answer but a ballpark answer will do. How far will a stocked rainbow travel upstream?
Thanks,
hNt
how far will a stocker travel upstream
I know this will be hard to answer but a ballpark answer will do. How far will a stocked rainbow travel upstream?
Thanks,
hNt
"If we lie to the government, it's called a felony, when they lie to us, it's called politics." Bill Murray
All the way up to the first pellet dispenser.
Until something stops it.
Till it runs into Chuck Norris.
ya'll are a lot of help. Lol
"If we lie to the government, it's called a felony, when they lie to us, it's called politics." Bill Murray
Well, you asked advice from a man in a Hawaiian shirt in a landlocked state (Dub, not me). But seriously, there is nothing to stop a stocker from traveling where it wants. I know of a case in MT where grayling were stocked in the Gallatin and some had traveled over 100 miles within a day or two.
Many of the steelhead in Idaho's ocean-going river systems are stocked fish. They travel downstream to the ocean and then come back up river as far as the Salmon River near Stanley, Idaho. There are a lot of miles traveled by these "stocker" fish. Not the same as many put-and-take waters, but all were raised in a hatchery in their beginning.
Kelly.
Tight Lines,
Kelly.
"There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home."
Roderick Haig-Brown, "Fisherman's Spring"
Q: What does a fish say when it hits a wall?
A: Dam!
Some years back, our fish & wildlife department put transponders on a number of fish that were stocked in the state's featured tailwater and tracked the movement of the fish over a period of time. There were some that went miles upstream (and likewise down) as I recall. The graphical representation of the individual fish travels was pretty cool. While most didn't travel miles, they still dispersed pretty widely.
It varies to a large degree. For most put-and-take stockers, they've bred most of the migratory tendencies out of them so that they stay put. On the other hand, in some cases the fish that they stock do still have some migratory tendencies, traced back to their steelhead ancestors.
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