05-06-2012, 02:40 PM
Lots of people are also missing the point that this has been tried already. Electric lake is a deep sided reservoir that is FULL of shiners. They stocked tigers in there a long time ago. I've caught lots of them. None of them over 14 inches.
Other "trophy" tiger lakes i've fished in Northern Utah, on the Manti, on 1000 lake and on the Boulder have NO MINNOWS of any kind and i've personally caught Tigers over 4 lbs in all of them.
Obviously the new state record shows that they do eat minnows but i'm sure that fish ate lots of bugs as well. I think the cutts at the berry are better at minnow control. I'd be happy to see 90% bear lake bonniville cutts in the berry. I think the kokes feed on too much of the zoo plankton that could help juvenile cutts get over the hump faster. The other 10% I'd do triploid rainbows just for variety.
This is all just my opinion and I know many will not agree with me.
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Other "trophy" tiger lakes i've fished in Northern Utah, on the Manti, on 1000 lake and on the Boulder have NO MINNOWS of any kind and i've personally caught Tigers over 4 lbs in all of them.
Obviously the new state record shows that they do eat minnows but i'm sure that fish ate lots of bugs as well. I think the cutts at the berry are better at minnow control. I'd be happy to see 90% bear lake bonniville cutts in the berry. I think the kokes feed on too much of the zoo plankton that could help juvenile cutts get over the hump faster. The other 10% I'd do triploid rainbows just for variety.
This is all just my opinion and I know many will not agree with me.
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