Fishing Forum

thparkie and I hit the G-ville Res this mornin. It was rather nippy when we got there and started casting out. We were icing up every couple casts. Once the sun came up it was simply beautiful weather. Just turned the fish off too when it came up. All in all it was a pretty good day.

He beat my count yet again, but we both felt we did pretty decent. 5 total, 2 browns, 3 bows, all pretty good sized too. The first fish of the day was caught by him and it was a nice brown, at least 18 inches.
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I'm not going to preach a bunch of crap to you so ignore me if you want. Please release the browns, they are the only established predators the carp have.
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Meh, Browns taste better than bows. Fish are for food. And less browns = bigger browns.
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I release 90 precent of the fish I catch. I will admit I took my two today, but its few and far between. I'm all about keeping G-ville (or any place for that matter) a good place for me and my kids to fish.
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Yes, fish are food, so keep the rainbows that get stocked. There are no browns that get stocked in Grantsville, they are intended to survive on natural reproduction.
To belittle your comment about browns "And less browns = bigger browns." You can't be serious, either you are basing this off something somebody told you or you have no idea what's going on and you just wanted to sound like a....silly person.
Ratstar, your cool. It's hard to say what you want to say how you want to say it on the computer [crazy]. I don't care if you kept a couple, they're not my fish. I just hate to see this many carp in Grantsville, that has nothing to do with you, I imagine the browns are going to get huge feeding on the carpinskis and I wish they could keep them in check. I see Grantsville going two ways. 1: Carp population is ridiculous (2 years from now) and the whole reservoir turns to crap. 2: The smallmouth bass population takes a hold, the browns are still around to stand their ground and the planted rainbows get eaten by Joe Shmoe. The bronzies and browns eat carplets and get big while big carp are getting a gillectomy? The carp are always going to be there, there is only one way to get rid of them...
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I just hate the elitist attitude that frequents the modern day fishing culture that you should release all the fish you catch. Let those who catch them decide what they do with the fish they catch. If you want fish to live, stop trying to catch them. According to the DWR, 1 out of every 10 fish you release dies. Which is probably higher in these winter months. If I considered myself a friend of aquatic life I would stop poking them in the face with sharp hooks.

Browns are not stocked, browns are meant to survive on reproduction, but browns were also meant to be eaten by animals and birds which often times we remove from the environment for our substantive benefit. I will admit I am not familiar with the Granstville ecosytem, but I do know if you let all those browns go, they will eventually overrun their food source and die a slow painful death of starvation.

And I still maintain that Browns taste better than planter bows.
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I release most of the trout I catch too but you don't need to answer to anyone. You want to catch eat, go ahead. Its funny but I think of some of the critics who tell others to release fish. In their lifetime, it would be interesting for us to hear from them how many fish they caught and killed in their lifetime. I know there are certain kinds of fish that people rail about so don't get me wrong, they have good points.
I'm a decent fisherman but I can guess that most of the BFT'ers caught more and bigger fish than I have. The last biggie I caught was a 4 lb largemouth at Quail Creek. I unfortunately failed to bring my camera so my story swam away to be caught another day - and thats only because I don't like to eat l.m. bass. Good day on you! Have a tasty meal. Keep us posted.
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[quote fsh4fun05] I'm not going to preach a bunch of crap to you so ignore me if you want. Please release the browns, they are the only established predators the carp have.[/quote]

I wont try to stir the pot here but Out of all the bows I have caught out there (somewhere in the range of 50-60 fish) probably 95 percent of those fish that I keep have none other than carp in their belly. So the bow at grantsville may be different than other bows but dont say that bows dont go after the carp. Heck half the bows I catch I've done so on either a rapala that looks like the carplets out there or on a silver tas devil. Bows are getting to be a very good predator (out there at least).
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Geez, I didn't mean to get your panties all twisted up. I never said anything about releasing all fish you catch. I keep fish often. I think you're putting too much thought into this, especially not being familiar with Grantsville. Their aren't that many browns left in there and I see THEM being overrun by their food source. Hooray for you that browns taste better, I don't care.
From what I read the bows are eating the carplets also, that's pretty good news
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I wasnt taking offense or anything, I was letting you know because you said you werent familiar with the eco out there.

But I am still a newbie so I still have alot to learn, thank you for suggestions on paying more attention to the eco's.
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No, no, no, I was referring that statement to spcopper. I have fished Grantsville for about 13 years (man I'm getting old), it was where I took my maiden pontoon trip. Caught a rainbow on my first cast and thought I had it nailed for the day... it was my only fish .
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That means I was 11 when you started fishing there. Now you can feel old lol
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If there are as many minnows as everyone claims there are in gville i can't figure out why not too many fish over 5lbs come out of there (from my intel). I read something in the paper a while back that said some guy and his daughter caught a 15lb brown out of there is that true? I'm sure there are some big ones in there if they have that much to eat.
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I myself have seen a 14lber pulled from there. There definately is big ones in there. And it seems to me like the average right now is just barely under 20" for browns from my experience on it. I think the next few years will be completely awesome for the browns and bows out there.
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ive been fishing Gville for 15 years not that i remember alot from 15 years ago but i do know there is some huge browns in there and at least one over 10 pounds get caught every year ive caught some big boys through the ice Vernon also used to have some big browns in it
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I was 16 and it doesn't seem that long ago...life is too short.
Chris30, I first noticed the carp a couple years ago. I was dissapointed but didn't think much of it. I caught my first bass out of there last year, by accident really. The lake is changing drastically and the carp are going strong as they usually do. It has always been full of crawdads and bugs but hopefully all the fish will get big eating the carp.
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I truly hoep that this spot doesnt get over run with carp. I personally would hate to see this happen. I know I myself cant stop it but I will try! I'm going to go back out for more carplets sometime this week. Seeing them in there makes me sick.
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Nice day eh!

I used to fish G-ville when I lived out there 10 years or so ago... always a bunch of fun. I recently went on a carp gathering trip - there are a lot. I watched the bigger fish hit the minnows when I scared them out to the depths with my net... pretty cool sight. That was my contribution to growing the browns []
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