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[gcal]

According to the GoFishBC site  (http://www.gofishbc.com/r2.htm), on Sept 25, 4508 "catchable" cutthroats were stocked. 

But the average size was only 112 grams!   That's pretty small, isn't it?   Perhaps it was a typo.

[newsman]

Maybe fisheries is prestocking for next June's derby.

[toyt_lines]

112grams is quite big for stocked fish

[kodiak]

At 112g wouldn't that make them about 4" in length?

[CALI 2 B.C.]

112g is a pound.

[CALI 2 B.C.]

sorry quarter pound

[jimmywits]

112 grams is tiny, quite dissapointing. The plan may be to get a big inventory in there growing for next season. The 500 gram fish put into Rice Lake made for descent fishing for a little while. They only stocked 290 so they are all but gone now. I wish they would keep the stocking summary more up to date on ''go fish bc ''. The last entry is for the 25 of September and I would bet they have done some more stocking since then. If they have'nt why not, the water is back down to around 13 degrees C ? It is October 8th, well into the fall fishing season, let's go!!

[jimmywits]

112grams is quite big for stocked fish

How do you figure that???

[toyt_lines]

September 11 SHERIDAN SHERIDAN LAKE RB PENNASK  2N Fry 6848 1gram
May 11 KENTUCKY MERRITT RB PENNASK  2N Yearling 15000 17grams
April 28 KENTUCKY MERRITT RB FRASER VALLEY  3N Catchable 2500 238 grams

[jimmywits]

September 11 SHERIDAN SHERIDAN LAKE RB PENNASK  2N Fry 6848 1gram
May 11 KENTUCKY MERRITT RB PENNASK  2N Yearling 15000 17grams
April 28 KENTUCKY MERRITT RB FRASER VALLEY  3N Catchable 2500 238 grams

Look at the stocking list for around here from this spring, nothing under 235 grams was considered catch-able! Most of the catchables were in or over the vicinity of 300 grams, 365 being the heaviest this spring. I guess it comes down to clarifying between stocking catchables as opposed to minnows.

[toyt_lines]

Look at the stocking list for around here from this spring, nothing under 235 grams was considered catch-able! Most of the catchables were in or over the vicinity of 300 grams, 365 being the heaviest this spring. I guess it comes down to clarifying between stocking catchables as opposed to minnows.

Id say less than 5% of the province is stocked as catchables

[jimmywits]

Id say less than 5% of the province is stocked as catchables

That may be true, but what started this post was the question by gcal asking if 112 gram catchables were small and as far as catchables go, they are very small. His next statement was pondering the idea that it (the term catchable) was a typo, which is quite possible.

[toyt_lines]

I dont think it was a typo. 112grms are probably small for catchables but huge for yearlings. Kinda between "classes" haha

[bederko]

112 grams IS small for catchable rainbows.  But, these fish were cutthroat and it is rare to raise cutts to this size for release into lakes.  The term "catchable" is only used on hatchery records for any fish released larger than a "yearling" which is usually no more than 30 grams.  If you check the site, there were also "catchable" cutts released into Deer and Hicks in Sasquatch Park and I know there will be another 1000 released into Jones in the next few weeks.

[jimmywits]

112 grams IS small for catchable rainbows.  But, these fish were cutthroat and it is rare to raise cutts to this size for release into lakes.  The term "catchable" is only used on hatchery records for any fish released larger than a "yearling" which is usually no more than 30 grams.  If you check the site, there were also "catchable" cutts released into Deer and Hicks in Sasquatch Park and I know there will be another 1000 released into Jones in the next few weeks.

112 grams IS small for catchable rainbows. Thankyou, enough said.