Lake up, slow fishing.

Well the "catchable" Rainbows are biting at Vallecito. I sort of don't understand why they keep it up with these fish. Let the Smallies, Pike, Walleye do their thing. Let the Browns do their thing, and let's make lakes like Groundhog the awesome Rainbow lakes. Or.. Better yet, let's deal with native Cutthroats and send the Rainbows packing back to California where they belong. I hear about the expense it takes to stock Rainbows in Vallecito because they have to be grown so large to not be eaten by the Pike. Hey, let's cut that expense, it's a Pike lake. Pike have been there since they were stocked in the 60s, why continue paddling upstream? We were amazed to catch a Colorado River Cutthroat in Vallecito the other day, that was awesome. I guess he came down from Vallecito Creek. Neat! CPW just spent over $100,000 to fix the Smallmouth problem at Miramonte. The reason they did this is because Miramonte is a "put and grow" lake. This means that fingerlings are stocked and grow to catchable size in the lake, making them wild, delicious, and fun to catch. Smallmouth decimate these fingerlings. While I enjoy Smallmouth Bass, it was a shitty thing to put them in Miramonte. Put and grow lakes also often have natural reproduction happening, which is fabulous. There are plenty of lakes for Smallmouth, they don't have to be in EVERY lake. There are my rants for the day... Leave the Smallies where they are, get rid of the Rainbows and let's have a picnic! By the way we got skunked trying to fill our cooler with Kokanee the other day. Weeeeeeird.