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Elisant
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Stocking Lakes in BC by air

Post by Elisant » Sun Oct 05, 2008 11:36 am

So in my native British Columbia they have started stocking many inaccessible lakes from helicopters while hovering around 10 feet above the surface. Apparently a total of around 120,000 rainbow trout are being released into 40 lakes this way.

http://www.gofishbc.com/docs/clearwater ... ll2008.pdf

I've never heard of this before, have you?
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RE:Stocking Lakes in BC by air

Post by Marc Martyn » Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:49 pm

I believe that all of the western mountain states have been doing that for many years. Many of the alpine lakes in the west don't have roads to them, just trails.
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RE:Stocking Lakes in BC by air

Post by Rollin with Rolland » Mon Oct 06, 2008 6:55 am

Yep, just like marc said. I first heard of them dumping stockers into alpine lakes (5-6000ft) with helicopters in Oregan in 2000. I'm sure It's been done before that...

I have also heard of some stories where the fry are actually packed in on an individuals back, then released. Not sure of that though.
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RE:Stocking Lakes in BC by air

Post by Elisant » Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:55 am

Cool, that's the first I'd heard of it.

Thanks for the responses!
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RE:Stocking Lakes in BC by air

Post by Kfedka » Tue Oct 07, 2008 12:41 pm

Fist time hearing of this myself. Find it fascinating.
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RE:Stocking Lakes in BC by air

Post by wolverine » Tue Oct 07, 2008 7:31 pm

It sure beats packing them in on horse back or man power sing milk cans.
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