I telephoned the G&F in Green River about the ling problem, mainly my question was, is there a written regulation? They told me they had appealed through newspaper articles in the Casper Star and some others for fishermen to keep 25 in the whole Green River drainage, including Big Sandy Reservoir. We had a lengthy chat about the problem.
In the Fontenelle and Gorge fisheries, the netted ling have been necropsied and lake trout eggs, kokanee eggs and lake trout frye, just to mention a few, have been discovered; one can readily see why this is a growing and serious problem. And the numbers of ling are signifigant, comparitively, in the drainage.
While there is no current regulation, one is being written for the whole drainage and it will essentially require the keeping/killing of the first 25 burbot caught, but I agree with Bigred1 here, if killing 25 is a good thing, killing 26 or 27 is even better.
Maybe a bunch of us could meet over at Big Sandy Res on a given day and start to diminish their numbers. An aside on the other Big Sandy fish, only brown trout are being stocked there, no more rainbows...some problem with survivability.
Knowledge is power. The point is that there's a ling problem in the drainage and removing them in huge numbers is a good thing.
ex-Lt