Biologist sums up trout expectations for 2010

[Ray]

How do they predict how many lbs. of trout are caught a year?

["W"]

Originally Posted by Ray

How do they predict how many lbs. of trout are caught a year?

Feed back from guides .......but I wonder how close they are to the real number.....but when you talking in Millions Im sure you can be way off.

Take what I catch and keep a year....Im not no where the greatest fisherman but I do have above normal success. I would say out of a 100 trips I limit 60-70 of them. Taking the circumstance....

A guide fishes 230 days a year and I would think on big lake take no less that 40 trout per trip adv.

[meaux fishing]

Originally Posted by Ray

How do they predict how many lbs. of trout are caught a year?

ive seen biologists measuring fish and counting down in Dularge before

[PUREBAY2200]

Originally Posted by meaux fishing

ive seen biologists measuring fish and counting down in Dularge before

I've seen em down at BSM and i've done the "survey"
they ask how Many fish, measure the biggest, and thank you.
For every 50 boats 1 gets "surveyed"
not exactly what I would call accurate.

As far as askin guides .... Hmmmm.
That's pretty useless. It would take 1000 average fisherman to catch the same number of trout 1 guide catches in the same year.

I just don't see how they ever gonna come close to the true numbers. I know it's all an estimate... But it seems pointless.

We do need to keep track of trout harvest , but the current method ain't nearly accurate enough. IMHO.