Squaw fish in some lakes serve a good purpose as bait for big makinaw...gpc wrote:kuttkilla wrote:Actually, this statement is false. A study undertaken by UW and NOAA Fisheries was conducted in where they mentioned that the cutthroat trout had overtaken the squaw as the more prevalent species in the lake. However, I do agree with them being a "pesk" and eating salmon smolt and trout fingerlings, but then again, so do cutthroat...gpc wrote:Squaw fish are the top dogs of the lake.
Yeah but squaw fish serve absolutely no purpose to us fisherman. At least the cutts make for a fun fishery. And squaw fish dont migrate out to sea like a lot of the cutts. All year long they eat game fish smolt..... and thats about it
In Priest lake, we catch a few squaw fish and use little strips of their meat on our bucktail flies behind a flasher when trolling for those mackinaws...
In Lake Washington, they do nothing but devour small fish like salmon/cutt/steelhead smolt...Not good in that situation...
