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[Darko]

Hello everyone and happy holidays! I was wondering if anybody has information about if brood stock trout have been released in Lafarge yet this year? Thanks in advance.

[MetalAndFeathers]

Apparently gofishbc no longer stocks brood trout in the lower mainland lakes. However you might get lucky and run into one of the steelhead kelts released into Lafarge in 2012 

[roeman]

released in 2012?
do they live that long?

[Darko]

Apparently gofishbc no longer stocks brood trout in the lower mainland lakes. However you might get lucky and run into one of the steelhead kelts released into Lafarge in 2012 

oh I've never heard of that before? I wonder why they would stop stocking them.

[Darko]

released in 2012?
do they live that long?

I doubt it XD if they did they would have to be 20+ lb which is definitely not realistic

[Rodney]

The surplus broods are no longer released into Lower Mainland lakes because the Fraser Valley rainbow trout spawning is now done at Vancouver Island Trout Hatchery instead of the Fraser Valley Trout Hatchery.

[Darko]

The surplus broods are no longer released into Lower Mainland lakes because the Fraser Valley rainbow trout spawning is now done at Vancouver Island Trout Hatchery instead of the Fraser Valley Trout Hatchery.

that makes sense. Thanks so much Rodney!

[RalphH]

 Any steelhead kelts ( most likely not steelhead but domestic rainbow brood stock which were more frequently dumped in Mill lake before the brood stock program was centralized on the the island) would be 12 years old by now if they had lived. Few rainbows or steelhead get older than 7 or 8 years. Generally rainbows don't grow much after they have competed their first spawn. The brood stock are likely not worth keeping for another spawn given how much it would cost to feed them so in to the drink they go. I don't know what happens to them on the Island though in the past I understand some have been dumped into Langford Lake.

[Lunk Louie]

Think I've told this one somewhere before.....many many decades ago I was fishing Mill with a bud in our donut tubes.....hooked into something that was so huge it tore off along the surface actually creating a rooster tail !!!! We knew there were the odd bruiser in there cuz we caught em once in awhile....I had to see the size of this one so after what seemed an eternity, the fish measured out at 29".....it was a big dark brooder with big shoulders wouldn't even fit into the net, still a huge firm/solid body..... taken on a 5wt and 4X no less....I normally would have instantly broken something like that off in the wild but knew it wasn't a propagating fish in the urban lake....will never forget that one.

[clarki]

The surplus broods are no longer released into Lower Mainland lakes because the Fraser Valley rainbow trout spawning is now done at Vancouver Island Trout Hatchery instead of the Fraser Valley Trout Hatchery.

That’s interesting. Why is that, Rod?