Fishing Forum

Well I thought Id start out with some reports from the last month.
I had a couple of trips to Navajo lake and did fairly decent for splake and planter rainbows.



The thing that made me extremely mad was the amount of chubs I found I managed to get rid of 46 of the useless things but there are millions more in there[mad]


My latest trip was a few days ago to Minersville reservoir, IT SUCKED the wind was blowing extremely hard and I discovered another lake with an infestation of chubs I caught 20 of them here but no other fish.
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wow some nice looking splake there.. if i rember right Navajo had some big brown's it years ago.. guess there must not be to many any more if the chub's are back.. [:/].. bummer.. maybe the DWR will get some tiger trout for ya-all down south in Dixie.. they seem to like to eat them chub[sly]..
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Well ive never heard of browns but there is always the possibility i guess. There is some very large brooks in there but they are few and far between.
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my bad i was thinking of the other navajo lake on the AZ side by farmington.. sorry about that! [sly]
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You must be mistaken about chubs in Minersville. [:/][laugh][shocked][:|][sly] J/K.
The smallmouth have taken care of all of them. Just ask the DWR and PBH.

Of course I've said all along that the smallies would eat crawdads and leave the chubs alone. Now if they'd put wipers in there they would eat those nasty chubs. Or even tiger trout would eat more of the young of the year chubs. But go on believing that the smallmouth are doing their job. Funny how they put wipers in Newcastle because the smallmouth prefer crawdads over forage fish in there, but they expect smallmouth to eat forage fish in Minersville and forgo an easy meal of crawdads.

It's probably a good thing that you didn't catch any trout at Minersville at this time of year anyway. The water is too warm, and there isn't enough oxygen in there for a trout to exert itself and then survive being released. I impose a moratorium on myself from the 4th of July until the end of September at Minersville.
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They actually did plant tiger trout into minersville, 15000 of them the problem seems that they planted them at two inches long. So if they survive thats great but it kind of seems a waste of fish if they are just going to get eaten.
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15,000 2 inch trout, that's going to make some mighty fine fodder for the rainbows. My opinion and i'm not a dwr lover by any means, smallmouth won't touch baitfish, unless there is a shortage of crawdads (plenty in Minersville). Wipers would do a better job, i think splake would be the best to get rid of chubs. They grow to large sizes quickly and they have a monstrous appetite. Speaking from opinion of course, there is always some unseen consequence of stocking hybrid fish into trophy lakes.
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Minersville is too shallow and therefore too warm for splake. The tigers are fish eatin' machines too. They just don't get quite as big.
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