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Article: KOKE VS. MACK SOLVING SALMON DROP SO FAR DOESN'T INCLUDE HIGHER LAKE TROUT LIMITS.(Sports)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
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- December 12, 1999
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Byline: Ed Dentry Denver Rocky Mountain News Outdoors Writer
Lake trout enthusiasts may exhale for the moment.
Despite the delicate imbalance between kokanee salmon and their primary predator, no one so far has seriously recommended the whack'em and stack'em lake trout (mackinaw) limits that lake trout anglers feared.
To further ease the tension, some encouraging news comes from the annual kokanee netting and egg-stripping for hatcheries.
Last month's egg take at Roaring Judy Hatchery upstream from Blue Mesa Reservoir was acceptable, if not remarkable - despite unseasonably warm waters, which killed many salmon in the river before they ...