Once infected there is no cure. Prevention is the only course of action available to fisheries managers. If you fish an infected stream, don't carry any fish out of the watershed and disinfect your waders or hipboots using chlorine bleach. Even that may not be enough to prevent the spread of this parasite. Once past the realization that a tailwater is a gigantic spring creek with uniform water temperatures, lots of nutrients and high production, management plays a very important role in realizing the full potential of a tailwater trout fishery.
Special regulations make a mediocre fishery, a great fishery.
The point I'm trying to make is, regardless of the potential to produce great trout fishing, without regulations to limit the take and allow the trout time to grow, we have just another good trout fishery. Take time this year to visit one of these world-class trout fisheries this year. They may not be pristine, but fishing is outstanding. I believe you'll be very favorably impressed. Tailwater Magic is copyrighted material and may not be reproduced or copied or transmitted in any form without the express written permission of Stu McQuin .