Estimated percentage of trout harvested
from the inner Parry Sound winter and
summer creel surveys.
Year
Percentage
82
85
88
91
93
94
97
85
87
88
91
92
93
95
96
97
0
20
40
60
80
100
Wild l.t.
stocked l.t.
backcross
Summer
Winter
•
The proportion of unclipped/wild lake trout in the angler catch did increase significantly in 1995.
•
Wild lake trout we also being captured in areas of the bay where only clipped fish were caught in previous years.
•
This circumstantially indicated that stocked fish played an important role in the rehabilitation of Parry Sound lake trout.