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[Dave]

Just like the Lake Trout in Alouette Lake.

Do some homework on those Damien

[ktt]

Rice Lake is mostly covered with ice. Not stocked yet.

[Damien]

Do some homework on those Damien

One pic is all it will take to prove it.  Not some old stocking 'records'.

Good luck.

[Dave]

Firebird?

[Dave]

Firebird posted a picture a while back of a Lake trout captured from Allouette Lake  ... he may or may not repost it. In the meantime here is another post from FWR regarding these fish.
http://www.fishingwithrod.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=31388.0

I am curious however why stocking records aren't proof enough these fish weren't at least at one time present?

Northern Pike in Mill Lake ... just some fun a few regulars are having

[Britguy]

Amazing what you find when you search the web
no mention of pike minnow but steelhead

Species in Mill Lake:
Black Crappie, Brown Bullhead, Catfish (General), Cutthroat Trout, Cutthroat Trout (Anadromous), Goldfish, Pumpkinseed, Rainbow Trout, Steelhead, Largemouth Bass

[firebird]

Firebird posted a picture a while back of a Lake trout captured from Allouette Lake  ... he may or may not repost it.

I've been having problems posting photos stored on OneDrive using the img tool. If this doesn't work, I'll have to use the hyperlink. This is the lake char caught in Alouette in Sept 1999, measuring 96cm and weighing 12kg.



https://1drv.ms/i/s!AuXiKvW-aydmjDdy6ioFdCaVTTFr

Here's a link to 1967 and 1968 memos (3 pages total) about lake trout stocking.

https://1drv.ms/b/s!AuXiKvW-aydmjDlLLr-fYGsYeATD

And a 1969 memo following up on a 1968 stocking.

https://1drv.ms/b/s!AuXiKvW-aydmjDj-pwsXf4v0TzsW

And here's BC Fisheries Biologist Greg Wilson with a laker caught in a gill netting project in 2004. This was taken across the lake from Gold Creek where they used to keep the net pens.

https://1drv.ms/i/s!AuXiKvW-aydmjDYHoUf1dzscpFuH

[psd1179]

I've been having problems posting photos stored on OneDrive using the img tool. If this doesn't work, I'll have to use the hyperlink. This is the lake char caught in Alouette in Sept 1999, measuring 96cm and weighing 12kg.



https://1drv.ms/i/s!AuXiKvW-aydmjDdy6ioFdCaVTTFr

Here's a link to a 1967 memo about lake trout stocking.

https://1drv.ms/b/s!AuXiKvW-aydmjDlLLr-fYGsYeATD

And a 1969 memo following up on a 1968 stocking.

https://1drv.ms/b/s!AuXiKvW-aydmjDj-pwsXf4v0TzsW

And here's BC Fisheries Biologist Greg Wilson with a laker caught in a gill netting project in 2004. This was taken across the lake from Gold Creek where they used to keep the net pens.

https://1drv.ms/i/s!AuXiKvW-aydmjDYHoUf1dzscpFuH

So the fish was caught back to 2004. I was there last sunday paddling around the sound end shallow area. From my fish finder down image, I saw clearly large fish image just like lake trout hogging close to the bottom around 45 feet deep. Unfortunately my Type 3 sinking line was not efficiently reaching that deep.

[firebird]

So the fish was caught back to 2004. I was there last sunday paddling around the sound end shallow area. From my fish finder down image, I saw clearly large fish image just like lake trout hogging close to the bottom around 45 feet deep. Unfortunately my Type 3 sinking line was not efficiently reaching that deep.

I would put my money on it being bull trout. There is a small, well fed population with mature fish upwards of 70cm in length.

[Damien]

Well, I stand corrected.  Should those pics be legit. 

[RalphH]

Back some time, as in 20 to 25 years, MOE stocked "surplus" steelhead smolts in a number of lakes. Another lake that did get some was Spider near Qualicum Lake and I talked to locals there about 20+ inch fish being caught for a few years. The reason those fish may have gotten bigger is that steelhead live a year or 2 longer than FV domestics that are used to stock most lakes in the FV and on the ISland.

Back in the 60s Mill was said to grow trout up to about 5lbs and my father and I did catch a couple in the 2 to 3lb range.

[DanL]

Looking at previous years stocking reports and it appears that Mill lake in addition to catchable sized triploids has also been the recipient of various staged rainbows.

9,000 fry in 2016, 4,500 fingerling in 2014, and 4,000 fry in 2011.

Was/is the FFSBC using Mill as a test case to see how viable a strategy that is? Or some other purpose? It's not something we generally see amongst LML put-and-take lakes.

Just curious if there is anything to indicate how the survivablity of these small fish panned out or if they just likely became bass food.

[Rodney]

Surplus fish from the hatchery otherwise would have been disposed.

[psd1179]

Surplus fish from the hatchery otherwise would have been disposed.

Will they be slurped by bass?

[Rieber]

Will they be slurped by bass?

Sure, the Bass, Crappie and Catfish will all take advantage of hatchery fry. Survival rate is surely to be very low but why not drop in surplus Fry. Maybe due to the numbers, there are some fish that survive to grow large enough to be caught and kept.

I see a decent number of minnows and fry in the lake during the summer months but I would surprised if they were trout. I believe them to be Bass or Crappie but hopefully I'm wrong.

I don't know if it's just the natural cycles but volume of the chironomid hatches sure seem to be getting smaller ever year. Maybe the population of Bass and Crappie has reached a point where they and the Trout are sucking up more of the bugs - so much so that it's visually noticeable.

Sure is nice to have hatchery enhanced lakes here.