Ah - one of my favorite fish.

I agree with Stlhdh2o - the Dolly Varden/bull trout are a great gamefish, especially when the tackle is scaled to their size. Try those 20 inch fish on your 5 weight fly rods.

While it is common to see them feeding on eggs the vast majority of the eggs are those that have been dug up by the spawning salmon - thus dead eggs. It is an old wives tale that they dig them out of the gravel.

They certainly are a predator, in fact an apex predator - the top dog if you will. However Ginrdog is correct all salmonids eat smaller salmonids.

Our native char are a great indicator species. They use the whole system from the glaciers to the salt. If they are abundant then the river is functioning as it should. Throwing them or any other species into the brush just becasue of some mis-directed bias is reprehensible.

Tight lines
Smalma