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AUlake
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TROUT IN YATES
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6/14/2007 8:57:30 PM
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I caught a Speckled Trout in Yates and and was checking to see if this was common on Yates. The water temperature is freezing year around and it makes sense. Does anyone have any knowledge of YATES LAKE being stocked with Trout?
URL: auburnandthelake.com
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Aardvark
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TROUT IN YATES
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6/15/2007 12:10:16 AM
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I have been wondering for years if trout could survive below the dam. To my knowledge, there have been no efforts by the state to stock trout there. It sounds like someone with access to some trout was wondering the same thing as me and did a little illegal stocking. I think that Georgia stocks the upper reaches of the Tallapoosa and Little T, but a trout would have to make a long and hazardous journey to reach Yates Lake. I would like more information about your catch, like size, what you were using, and pictures if you have any.
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Aardvark
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TROUT IN YATES
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6/15/2007 12:51:52 AM
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I just thought of another possibility. When I read your post on the general forum where you mentioned Sougahatchee Creek, I remembered that Sougahatchee Creek flows north of Auburn near where the AU Fisheries Department has their facilities. When I toured those facilities many years ago, they had a trout rearing program. If there is still a trout rearing program there, then it is possible that one or more trout escaped, swam down Sougahatchee Creek, and ended up in Yates Lake. I would suggest calling the Fisheries Department and asking them about your catch. They might have some answers for you.
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Luvtohunt
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TROUT IN YATES
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6/15/2007 8:19:47 AM
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I fish Yates lake (the Middle Pond) a lot and know a lot of people that fish there all the time and i have never heard of anyone catching a trout. I know that yellow perch have started becoming more and more plentiful on all the lakes on the tallapoosa. I have caught some smallmouth below yates dam (Lake Tallassee/The lower pond), but never a trout. I would love to see a picture of it if you had one.
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Aardvark
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TROUT IN YATES
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6/15/2007 12:39:40 PM
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Tell me more about the smallmouth!
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AUlake
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TROUT IN YATES
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6/15/2007 8:11:41 PM
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Monday , I will call the Fisheries Department at Auburn and inquire about there past Trout program. Maybe they could come down and test the waters. Does anyone know other areas that hold trout? Someone mentioned upper Tallapoosa. I know the water temperature below the dam is unusually cold. I thought that it is more possible that all those developments on the Soughahatchie out of Auburn probably had a land owner that put some Trout in their creek channels, just like the way gold fish end up in lakes. I hope they keep it up!! The fish was definitely a Speckle.
URL: auburnandthelake.com
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AUlake
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TROUT IN YATES
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6/15/2007 8:12:43 PM
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She was nice looking.
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AUlake
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TROUT IN YATES
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6/17/2007 5:54:15 PM
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I checked with a fisherman in Birmingham and he said that there were TROUT in the Black Warrior River above Birmingham. Does anyone know about how these trout got in this river???
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Aardvark
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TROUT IN YATES
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6/18/2007 12:12:20 AM
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They can't get from there to here because of the dams. Like I said, the only ways for trout to get into Middle Pond are if Auburn was raising them and some escaped, or if someone did some illegal stocking. The illegal stocking option is likely because there are private trout farms all over the place, even in Alabama, and I have also read about some of these hunting plantations having a trout pond for fly fishermen in the winter months. I have even heard that someone trying to grow a world record bass stocks his trophy pond with trout every winter. Fat, dumb hatchery trout are how those California Largemouths grow to over 20 pounds. There are plenty of places for someone to get their hands on trout to sneak into a lake when the game wardens aren't looking. The biggest questions are whether they can survive the summer months and the hungry stripers that love to eat those "popsicles".
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AUlake
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TROUT IN YATES
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6/20/2007 5:10:07 PM
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I pulled up TROUT IN ALABAMA and found out that below Smith Lake is the Black Warrior River and that they actually stock TROUT below the dam because of the exact situation as Lake Martin - the water temperatures are COLD. THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE, we can have Tallapoosa and Elmore County stock YATES just like they do below Smith Lake. Someone need to find out what Species would be the best for Yates lake. I read that CUTTHROAT TROUT are very desirable for FLY FISHERMAN and handle warmer temperatures and are larger and more adjile to get away from Stripers.There are Stripe Bass below Smith Lake and the Trout are doing well. RESEARCH: BIG TROUT THAT CAN SURVIVE A LITTLE WARMER TEMPERATURES. I started researching andfound out that there numerous different Species of Trout. Most commented that they inter breed. You know, there is a Lake Martin Lemonade, maybeAUBURN UNIVERSITY can engineer a LAKE MARTIN SUPER TROUT, Some Species Trout can grow over 40lb. Best.....
URL: auburnandthelake.com
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Aardvark
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TROUT IN YATES
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6/20/2007 7:26:42 PM
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I don't know what the water temps are in the Martin tailwaters during the heat of summer(maybe you could check it out the next time you fish down there), but trout prefer temps in the 50s. Temps in the 60s are marginal, and anything much above 70 is bad news. However, I don't see why some enterprising fisheries students over at Auburn couldn't breed a "super trout" that grows to 40 pounds and can survive higher water temps. I just hope that they don't give it some obscene name like the "war eagle" trout. By the way, have you ever caught any smallmouth bass in Middle Pond? That is where those smallies that Luvtohunt catches came from. They were stocked in the early 80s, and obviously a population was established.
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AUlake
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TROUT IN YATES
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6/22/2007 11:12:45 AM
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In my research I have seen some orange and blue colorations. What about " Tiger Trout"?? My be a trout with teeth.
URL: auburnandthelake.com
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Lakeman
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TROUT IN YATES
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6/22/2007 8:33:01 PM
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Hey whats with the advertising?
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Lugan
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TROUT IN YATES
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6/28/2007 2:54:01 PM
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"Speckled Trout?!?!?""
Come on now. Get real.
Probably was a channel cat.
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fishing_graham
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TROUT IN YATES
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6/30/2007 11:13:52 AM
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Yea, a speckeld trout is a salt water fish, that would not survive in Yates. Now a Rainbow trout, I believe could survive below Martin Dam in that cold water.
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BigC
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TROUT IN YATES
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7/27/2007 3:12:44 PM
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A couple of years ago we talked with the game and fish folks asking since they are not stocking strippers in Tallassee lake anymore would they try trout. They have a program in I think Weiss Lake now to see if the fish can survive and said if in five years it goes well Lake Tallassee might be the next on the list. Water never is above 65 or so would think Yates would be the same. Suppose some from Weiss made it down stream?
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