I had a customer come in yesterday with a huge dollie out of the cascade, the thing was near 8lbs. I congradulated him on such a nice fish. But his reply threw me for a curve. He said he kills every one of the fish he keeps (dollies) so as to reduce the predation on the other stocks of fish. I see this mentality on allot of the local rivers against white fish and suckers but not dollies. Is this a common? I would think the predation is good, weeding out the inferm and slow resulting in a stronger genetic pool. I just hate to see one of the few remaining stock of fish that don't need hatchery help be abused.

The sate used to want you to kill the dollie and bull trout because they would sit a couple feet behind a spawing salmon or steelhead and eat all the eggs. But they almost whent extinct. Now there are very few places that you can keep a dollie and all bulls have to be realeased. These fish are native and should be released imedeatly. I sure hope that it is not common to keep every dollie due to that reason.

what a typical thing to hear from our wildlife managers. I guess with this mentality all the people fishing the rainbows in alaska should have allot of trout dinners.

Dollies/Bull trout are a part of any healthy river in the area. Anyone killing them because they think they are a bad for salmon needs to get an education. No, your experience is not unusual. At the Hard Rain Cafe last week a lady working there told me she threw every dolly she caught up on the bank. Not only is that illeagal, its just plain stupid. WA has no shortage of idiots when it comes to dollies. I think the Cascade has limit of 2 over 20", so your uneducated client was in the clear. Another reason to make the Cascade C&R all wild fish. Whenever I see anyone throw a dolly out of the water or keep on rivers closed- I call em in. Poachers. Time to get the poacher relics into the reality of a healthy river system before we loose everything.

Yeah, I never bought that logic. If you follow it, we should be killing eagles too.

I just spent three days fishing a couple of rivers in the buckhorn wilderness.One river has signs all over it calling for the carefull release of all dolly/bull trout.I did not catch a dolly,trout or baby anything in this stream.fished it for two days and covered a guess of 8+ miles.not one fish.

Sunday I jump over to the other fork and first cast catch a nice dolly. for the next six hours I proceed to catch lots of fish of all kinds.

Not all streams contain dollys.But when I fish the ones that do, I worry when I do not catch any.Dollys are extremely aggressive.To me they are one of the best indicator of the overall health of a stream.Lots of dollys means lots of smolt and spawning fish, in turn a healthy pop all the way around.

The funny thing about this logic that the bonk everything people talk...the fact that they do sit down stream and eat eggs,,,the eggs that are drifiting out of the red are wasted eggs any way, most are not fertilized and hardly any well become fry....If you realy want to kill something that effects the return of salmon, kill a cormorant. they eat there weight EACH DAY in smolt....thats my soapbox...DJ

I hope they taste better than thoe's darn seagulls. They end up so greasy