Place To Fish For Bull Trout?

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Place To Fish For Bull Trout?

Post by No_Bad_Skunks » Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:39 am

Always wanted to try for these. Any suggestions? Oh, and yes I also mean catch and release.

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RE:Place To Fish For Bull Trout?

Post by racfish » Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:41 am

Skagit River Buck creek.The road there washed out.
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RE:Place To Fish For Bull Trout?

Post by big fish lite line » Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:30 pm

wait are dolly varden different then bull trout?
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RE:Place To Fish For Bull Trout?

Post by Drewp » Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:51 pm

No, they are the same.
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RE:Place To Fish For Bull Trout?

Post by big fish lite line » Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:59 pm

ok then ya the skagit has quite a few around 8-15in dollies
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RE:Place To Fish For Bull Trout?

Post by zen leecher aka Bill W » Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:03 pm

Closest place you have is the Metolius.

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RE:Place To Fish For Bull Trout?

Post by mallard83 » Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:03 pm

Drewp wrote:No, they are the same.
Not 100% sure, but as far as I knew Bull Trout were landlocked (i.e. blocked by dam/going to salt water) and Dollies were not and could go to the ocean and reaturn.

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RE:Place To Fish For Bull Trout?

Post by mallard83 » Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:10 pm

Here is what I found, they are not the same. http://library.fws.gov/Pubs1/bulltrout.pdf

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RE:Place To Fish For Bull Trout?

Post by fish4brains » Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:34 pm

Different subspecies of the Char Family.

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RE:Place To Fish For Bull Trout?

Post by fish4brains » Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:35 pm

Woops posted without reading further. Nice find Mallard83.

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RE:Place To Fish For Bull Trout?

Post by Anglinarcher » Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:08 pm

OK, back on topic.

For some large Bulls, lake Koocanusa in Montana, upstream of Libby MT, you can actually keep two per year. The usually catch them with large lures fishing under the kookanee for RBT. These boys usually run from 3 to 10 pounds, and some much bigger.

In lake Pend Orelle in Northern Idaho it is pretty common to catch them 3 to 15 pounds, again while fishing for super large RBT or the Lake Trout there.

I know, I know, a ways for you to travel, but some big ones to temp the old C&R fishermen.
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RE:Place To Fish For Bull Trout?

Post by Cantcatchnuthin' » Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:14 pm

Sorry for bringing ths one up from the dead.

When I lived in Boise, Idaho I made a trip up to Little Red Fish Lake in the Sawtooth's. I nailed about an "18 one on a rooster tail there. Apparently Red Fish and Little Red fish are full of them but the last time I was there, they were catch and release only. I think at the time they were endangered in that area.
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RE:Place To Fish For Bull Trout?

Post by David Hert » Fri Aug 29, 2008 7:30 am

big fish lite line wrote:wait are dolly varden different then bull trout?
Dolly Varden are the sea-run version of the Bull Trout

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