Author Topic: Bull Lake ice-out - rainbows (Read 7349 times)

LT · « **on:** Mar 24, 2007, 06:23 PM »

Yeppers, Dave and I took a ride up there this am to break in his new res-tag. Three fish were caught, these are my two...the other one...well, anyway. Off the bank on a gold Jakes Spinner

Yeeeeeee-haw.

Ocean Eyes · « **Reply #1 on:** Mar 24, 2007, 10:04 PM »

man, some of us have to work all the time and some get to fish all the time. Congrats! I like fishing the inlet on Bull lake this time of the year. Those lake trout just stack up there! Later KR

LT · « **Reply #2 on:** Mar 24, 2007, 10:22 PM »

...prob'ly in there scarfing those rainbow eggs!

doggbiter · « **Reply #3 on:** Mar 24, 2007, 10:27 PM »

Nice trout Don.....ya get your bro-in-law to eat them??

LT · « **Reply #4 on:** Mar 25, 2007, 02:40 PM »

When I caught this fish, I assumed without closely looking she was a rainbow, but I got to looking at her (the one on the right) last night when I was fileting her...I do believe that's a female cut-bow. She had the red gill slash, clearly visible in the photo and she's got that unmistakeable cutthroat eyeball...plus no eggs and the bo's haven't spawned yet so they're full of eggs...gotta be and hybrids don't spawn, do they? And talk about hot-orange meat, wow! More I looked at the zoom-in on the picture, more she looked like a hybrid between a rainbow and a yellowstone cutthroat...
might even possibly be a Yellowstone cutthroat male?
Th Don

BottomDweller · « **Reply #5 on:** Mar 27, 2007, 07:53 AM »

definitely cutthroat, but it does look like it has some bow in it. sometimes hard to say - harder to delineate than, say, splake and brookies, 'cause lots of purebred cutts have that purple streak too.

o2rmk800 · « **Reply #6 on:** Mar 27, 2007, 07:55 AM »

nice fish, congrats.

steve

LT · « **Reply #7 on:** Mar 27, 2007, 09:09 AM »

Quote from: BottomDweller on Mar 27, 2007, 07:53 AM

definitely cutthroat, but it does look like it has some bow in it. sometimes hard to say - harder to delineate than, say, splake and brookies, 'cause lots of purebred cutts have that purple streak too.

Hey thanks Bottomdweller (and rmk), my thoughts exactly, I mean, I was holding him in my hand and had difficulty pinning down exactly what he was, but that was pretty much my final judgement also, mostly cutt with a lil bow. You guys still got a little ice or are you done? You three had a heckuva season fer macs! laters bro,

Th' Don

Dorado · « **Reply #8 on:** Mar 27, 2007, 09:43 AM »

Probably an Eagle Lake Rainbow. They have stocked a lot of them in WY, and they have a slash under the gill like a cutthroat. In the lakes around Pinedale (like Boulder, Dollar) many of the rainbows have a slight "cutthroat" slash but are pure EL rainbows.

Hybrid rainbow/cutthroat ARE fertile and have viable offspring so if it should have had eggs or a milt sac (maybe an unripe male)?

One way to easily tell a hybrid is if the fish have a spotting pattern that is more dense on toward the tail, with the spots decreasing toward the head and the lower half of the fish. It is hard to tell on that fish because it is so silvery and the spots are so indistinct (another thing that makes me think it is an immature rainbow).

Whatever they are, looks like some good open fishing!

LT · « **Reply #9 on:** Mar 27, 2007, 01:41 PM »

I'd lean toward your EL rainbow theory, but I dunno...4-5 pound fish immature? How could that be...oh and there was no milt sac at all...sounds like you know what yoou're talking about though. thanks , Don

BottomDweller · « **Reply #10 on:** Mar 27, 2007, 04:19 PM »

monday was a sloppy day for sure - if it doesn't get cold quick, and stay that way for a couple nights and days, we're gonna have to break out the waders to get on that ice again, but yes, the ice is still thick enough to walk on, so we're praying for a little last-second freeze. - over and out, bd

LT · « **Reply #11 on:** Mar 27, 2007, 04:23 PM »

Good luck, let us know how you do, laters, Th' Don

SLAYERFISH · « **Reply #12 on:** Mar 29, 2007, 04:01 PM »

I've got tons of nice eggs from cuttbos. They are not a hybrid they are more of a cross breed. They actually cross-breed in the wild. I have caught some bo's at Bull lake up in the inlet that were part Golden trout. They had unmistakeable yellow colors. BTW- nice trouties.

LT · « **Reply #13 on:** Mar 29, 2007, 05:18 PM »

Hey, thanks Slayer...in Bull Lake Creek or actually in the lake at the inlet? Where do you think they got crossed up with goldens? Gotta be really good eating!

Th' "Don" Th' LT

SLAYERFISH · « **Reply #14 on:** Mar 30, 2007, 08:35 AM »

Caught them in the lake proper. The meat was fine tasting and had a yellow color to it. Havent seen any like it since. There are Goldens in the headwaters of bull lake creek so ? anybodys guess? One o these days will make it back to Bull lake.

icemonster · « **Reply #15 on:** Mar 30, 2007, 07:33 PM »

Some freinds and I ate some goldens that we caught out of the headwaters of bull lake creek years ago. NIce fish pushing 4-5 pounds. They were the oilyest nastiest fish Iv'e ever tasted. All but inedible. Kind like tunafish.

LT · « **Reply #16 on:** Mar 30, 2007, 10:20 PM »

...never had 'em so can't say, but I've talked to people who have and they say, never cook them in anything but their own (oily) juices...coon-a** I am, I'lll try 'em at least once...nastiest fish I ever tasted was a Boysen rainbow. woooooo-eeee!

BottomDweller · « **Reply #17 on:** Apr 03, 2007, 09:16 AM »

we eat goldens up high in the winds, cooked with apple slices in tin-foil on the fire, and they were excellent. could've been because they were small and young and hadn't developed the oil in their flesh like mature fish.

LT · « **Reply #18 on:** Apr 03, 2007, 10:54 AM »

Well BD, after seeing your pic-posts this season, I must comment that I cannot imagine you with a "small" fish

but if you say so...which Lake in the Winds...Clear Lake or the ones near Knifepoint Glacier ?
Th' "Don"

BottomDweller · « **Reply #19 on:** Apr 03, 2007, 02:32 PM »

i'm pretty sure it was called golden lake... it was a long time ago, though

LT · « **Reply #20 on:** Apr 03, 2007, 05:22 PM »

Yeah, upper and lower Golden...couldn't think of the name. The ones Wifey and I caught outta there few years ago were smallish but we figured we just didn't know how to catch the big ones..heckuva hike too as I recall.

LT · « **Reply #21 on:** Apr 05, 2007, 04:47 PM »

If you've ever fished Bull Lake on the reservation, you're not gonna believe this. I've never seen it this low.

SLAYERFISH · « **Reply #22 on:** Apr 10, 2007, 04:27 PM »

I seen it real low but never that low! I think it fishes better when its low . The fish are easier to find. Throw rainbow crocs on the mud flats and the lakers just hammer 'em.

LT · « **Reply #23 on:** Apr 10, 2007, 04:35 PM »

Well with the wind blowing like it is today, that would be easy to do...you could stand on the east bank and throw all the way to the west bank!

Ocean Eyes · « **Reply #24 on:** Apr 10, 2007, 06:45 PM »

Man Don, that is the lowest I've ever seen it! Did you fish it again? Later KR

LT · « **Reply #25 on:** Apr 11, 2007, 12:54 PM »

Yeah KR, thing is I looked at the weather forecast fer here in Lander as opposed to Dubois...20 degrees difference. Kermit and I came off the lake after one pass around the islands

LT · « **Reply #26 on:** Apr 12, 2007, 06:56 PM »

Bull Lake C&R brown....and nobody there to take the picture...10 minute battle, I'm guessing he was a lil over 5 pounds

BottomDweller · « **Reply #27 on:** Apr 13, 2007, 07:19 AM »

nice xlt

LT · « **Reply #28 on:** Apr 13, 2007, 08:58 AM »

Thanks, you know BD, I caught probably a dozen rainbows in addition to that guy...released everything, but he was the only one I whispered a prayer over when I put him back, although he was only outta the water for 10-12 seconds...Man! He was hook-jaw, fat and fine! I just will not kill a trophy brown...macs...that's a whole nother thing! They get cut up into steaks like salmon and baked.

LT

wyohunter · « **Reply #29 on:** Apr 15, 2007, 07:05 PM »

Way to go nice brown!!!!

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Author Topic: Bull Lake ice-out - rainbows (Read 7349 times)