Splake Trout

[meadowpikeman]

one has to be pushing ten here before its really considered a big one, hopefully get some big ones next week when the season opens. here's 3 of my nicer ones from last fall.

[troutbum]

beauties!

[Mackdaddy21]

I'm definately going to be trying for some shallow splake early this summer. I think countdown raps, jigs, and spoons like daredevles will be my choice lures.

Tyler

[troutbum]

is it true that Splake do not reproduce in Nature? If so does anyone know why NYS stocks them? Wouldnt it make sense to stock a fish that can reproduce?

[CarogaKid]

If they only stocked fish that reproduced, they'd be out of a job... I think dec looks at it like job security....

[meadowpikeman]

I don't know much about other places but here in sask we have a lot of lakes with stocked trout like browns rainbows and brookies, and other than the odd lake where there is some decent substrate for the brookies to spawn, there is basically zero successfull spawning in these lakes, so it really doesn't make a differnence in some cases if you stock fish like bows and browns or hybrid trout like tigers and splake.

[troutbum]

Well in  answer to  my own question, after considerable searching... I found an article explaining why the state of Maine stocks splake ( I am sure NY has the same idea).  They stock Splake to enhance fishing opportunity in waters that can not produce a reproducing poplulation of trout. Splake grow bigger faster and provide an easier target for anglers..

So you were right on the mark meadowpikeman    thanks for the post, and keep those splake pics coming... they give me something to work towards

here are some Splake Records:

 Splake   Robin Perkins   18 lb. 15 oz.   32       1976   Island Lake    Delta   Colorado   United States
Splake   Kevin Collins   4 lb. 8 oz.   22       1996   Hayden Lake        Idaho   United States
Splake   Daniel R. Paquette   10 lb. 3 oz.           5/8/93   Echo Lake        Maine   United States
Splake   John A. Brockway   17 lb. 8 oz.   34.5       2004   Lake Michigan,    Michigan United States
Splake   Michael Birdsall   13 lb. 5.44 oz.   33.5   19   2/11/01   Larson Lake    Itasca   Minnesota   United States
Splake   Thomas Barbour   9 lb. 0 oz.   26.88       2/20/80   Crystal Lake        New Hampshire   United States
Splake   Lee Turner   12 lb. 15 oz.           6/29/83   Little Green Pond        New York   United States
Splake   Lloyd Reichert   10 lb. 8 oz.           7/1/94   Deerfield Lake        South Dakota   United States
Splake   Mitchell T. Stewart   15 lb. 4 oz.   32.25   21.75   1999   Fish Lake        Utah   United States
Splake   unknown   14 lb. 7.7 oz.   32       4/14/01   Lake Michigan    Marinette   Wisconsin   United States
Splake   Christian Van Kirk   12 lb. 11.84 oz.   30.5   19   9/11/04   Libby Lake Wyoming   United States




wow an 18 lbs splake puts the 2-3 lb fish we pull from Caroga in the Winter Months to shame

[Hookset]

I have caught a couple of splake out of Goose Pond, off of Exit 28 of the Northway and then through the woods.  Took them on a nightcrawler that was head-hooked and then swam just off of the bottom of the pond.  Nothing like those big piggies at the top of the page, mine averaged about 16 inches and maybe a pound. 

Meadowpikeman:  Those are real beauties!!

[meadowpikeman]

season finally opens tommorow!!!!!!!! hopefully catch some splake and bows.

[TroutFishingBear]

 Splake   Robin Perkins   18 lb. 15 oz.   32       1976   Island Lake    Delta   Colorado   United States




wow an 18 lbs splake puts the 2-3 lb fish we pull from Caroga in the Winter Months to shame

Yeah we have a few bruisers here in colorado. That lake is only 1 hour 30 min from where I live. They stocked it with spake from 1987-1990 to help control the white sucker which had overtaken island lake's brookie, cutthroat, and rainbow fishery. They also stocked it in the late 1960's for the same reason. They just started stocking our splake lakes on the mesa again 2 years ago, this lake was included. Raleigh's lake also is stocked with splake.