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Originally Posted by Billfish715
Hey Chris, According to the lake trout population survey that I posted, your 31 incher is becoming more and more elusive. They are just not growing as large as they grew 20 years ago. The number of lakers has increased substantially especially since they are reproducing naturally. There may be just too many now for them to grow to truly trophy proportions. The fishery is so healthy that it's actually preventing the fish from growing too big. More of the smaller fish have to be put in a smoker so the others can grow.
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yeah there is def a stunting effect happening. can't grow giants on a diet of shrimp i guess.
I was going to keep the smaller one (which i recommend everyone doing as often as possible) but i just didn't feel like filleting/cleaning it so i released it.
I feel like if you jig for them in the summer, you need to plan on keeping them, they just don't seem to do well coming up into warm water.
