Zach Matthews
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Back in the 1970s, Dave Whitlock and the Friends of the Little Red River worked out how to stock browns successfully in Arkansas using the Vibert Egg box.
I am also restocking the photoblog with images which I had previously held back for magazine articles, but which did not get used.
We’ve had this discussion before and I frankly got lambasted for it elsewhere on the internet. My position was pretty simple: brown trout are not native to North America at all. Rainbow trout were once confined to some specific watersheds in the Pacific Northwest. The South certainly never had any trout at all, other than tiny brookies confined to the mountains.
From that perspective alone, I would like to see taimen stocked in one of the Southern tailwaters which have already been wholly turned into artificial, man-made environments anyway.
However, after talking to my biologist friends, and also watching what has happened with lakers in Yellowstone, I am also in the camp that says that bucket biology could not be controlled. If the taimen were cross-stocked with rainbows and browns in the South, in say the Little Red River, that’d really be no big loss as they’re all artificial anyway. But if the taimen was stocked in the Yellowstone? That could be catastrophic.
So, regrettably, I have also come to believe that stocking taimen is a bad idea. I do have one caveat however: if they were to approach extinction in their native range, I think it would then become worth it to stock them with some serious controls. They are too grand a fish to lose completely.
Zach
There are a few companies out there that will make rods to specs, some of which you’ve heard of and some of which you probably haven’t.
Mickey –
Here’s an excellent price on a trailer for that Gheenoe.
http://atlanta.craigslist.org/wat/for/1504121373.html
Zach
I really appreciate y’all’s comments; if you haven’t already commented in the iTunes store and you liked the show, your feedback there would be appreciated.