Washington State management.

[Aces]

Never heard of this before. Seems to be an investment in the future?

 

[kingblazer84]

Amazing idea! Crazy to think what proper management does to help anglers and stocks when people actually give a flying F@$&

Canadas support for this kinda stuff doesn’t exist because of all the bleeding hearts and environmentalist wannabes out here..

 

[Carmanah]

I have caught brood stock "rainbow" in lakes on southern Vancouver Island its been probably 6-10 years though I don't fish that lake anymore but they were between 5-10# they would release them in the late fall/early winter I am not sure as where they came from or what there purpose was but they were obviously in a class above the fall catchables that were normally available.

 

[RalphH]

those brood rainbows were used to produce eggs to raise and release as catchable "domestic rainbows". They were released as they were considered to have been retired without a pension . They used to do that on Region 2 and the surplus broodstock were released in to Mill Lake in Abbotsford. Last I heard all the domestic rainbow for Region 1 and 2 was produced at the Island hatchery.

In the past surplus steelhead smolts were released into a number of lakes on Van isle and Region 2. Spider lake got some. The steelhead program is so much smaller I doubt there is such a thing as a surplus of anything.