Thanks lucky. My knowledge of them comes from dribs and drabs of hearsay when I was younger and starting out... and then from actual experience formed personal opinion/thoughts. Its always good to hear about the facts even if its 25 years later. ThNks for the info.

Since you're on a roll, how about the lakers that were present from around 1991 to 1998... with 97 being the most dominant I saw...with a complete absence in 99. Can swear I had put ones on the bank that were over 15 pounds. In those times we would leave spots because we were hooking too many lakers and not enough steel. Can you share any knowledge on that subject??? Being that they were late fall /early winter spawners...not really off subject

We used to run into a lot of lakers in run below the meadow.  I dont really know what was happening there except that I have read that some lakers will enter tribs to find appropriate gravel for spawning.  The Lake around Selkirk looks to be a lot of cobble, so maybe those fish were not finding what they were looking for and ran to see what they would find in the river.  But I have not been down there in years since DSR became the haunt of the rich chic and trendy, and Connie headed off to the 'daks.
 
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Lucky, not just referring to dsr... as far up as the lfz wed find abundant numbers. And yes I did hear that there was loss of spawning grounds for some reason or another which forced them up the tribs in pursuit for suitable bedding grounds.

Connie was great along with mike.

Andy- Were those the years the lake was low and even the baitfish had spawning issues ?  Could that be why they ran in for a while ?? My memory kinda says that was in the 80s but ---- thats my memory-- its old too-- Recall trying to get out of a marina up around Sandy Pond into the main lake once and we barely made it. They were catching them back then in the stillwater above the mouth of Grindstone around that 'low lake'  time too.
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Not that I know much, but I though I read somewhere that the years those trout ran they had stocked a different strain that ran the river a few years before.   May have no merit  though.    I caught 1 around Pineville during that time.