Fishing Forum

This is just to let people know where some of the pertinent but hard to find information can be found on the F&G website. It is there for us.

The Southeast's first Regional Fisheries Newsletter (Paper that is in the other post) is now available on the F&G website. The newsletters have a lot of good information on what is going on in the various areas.

The Upper Snake Region has also published a some newsletters along with the Magic Valley, and Panhandle Region. The Upper Snake hasn't published one for this year yet. If your region hasn't let them know that you would like to know more of what is going on in your area.

They are kind of hard to find. You go to the F&G main page (http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/) then you have to go to the "about us" tab and then to the "region" you want.

SE page --- http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/public/abou...etPage=166

Upper Snake page--- http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/public/abou...etPage=171

Magic Valley page --- http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/public/abou...etPage=163

Panhandle area page -- http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/public/abou...etPage=163


The complete Fisheries Management Plan is under the "Fishing" main page. You go to "Programs and Plans" tab and select it there.

Why should you look at the Management Plan? This is the plan of all the actions that are set up for our waters for the next 5 years. It is long, but well organized. You don't have to read all of it. By clicking on items in the table of contents you can see what is happening in the area you are interested in. It is set up by species and special programs, then by drainages.

This is the document and guiding plan that was crafted after all of the surveys and regional meetings last year.
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Meeting on March 13, 2013 6pm at the Jerome office to discuss fisheries. I know I'll be there. My beloved sturgeon are starving, damn pelicans.
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One thing that caught my eye was the mention of planting tiger musky into Montpelier to control the perch. That should be interesting.
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Is there any pelican plans? (other than painting eggs). And, I know Easter is coming.

One nice thing about reading the Utah Forums. Utah F & G chimes in. And, explains what they are doing. Or, they try.

I enjoy feeding birds in the winter!

Feeding huge birds in the summer, keep planting??

Kinda weird, The eagles fly away after the snow melts.

Idaho
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I wish they would post on here too, but they are really good about answering emails and are very forthcoming with information in them.
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There is a Pelican plan. 2009-2013. Unfortunately any lethal action is dependent on USFWS as the birds are protected under the migratory bird treaty.

http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/public/wild...elican.pdf

P20-21 shows most of the options.

Fencing on the nesting islands has helped. Oiling too. I just wish we could thin the adult numbers.
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Thanks for posting these links!
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[quote gstott]One thing that caught my eye was the mention of planting tiger musky into Montpelier to control the perch. That should be interesting.[/quote] I saw that too....I had to look for it after seeing you mention it. What do you think that means? Planting this year?
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[quote dtayboyz]Meeting on March 13, 2013 6pm at the Jerome office to discuss fisheries. I know I'll be there. My beloved sturgeon are starving, damn pelicans.[/quote]


Here are three eating the last squaw fish in Sugar cube creek[fishon]
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[quote lucabrasi][quote gstott]One thing that caught my eye was the mention of planting tiger musky into Montpelier to control the perch. That should be interesting.[/quote] I saw that too....I had to look for it after seeing you mention it. What do you think that means? Planting this year?[/quote]

That's kind of what I got from it. It sounds like the perch need a lot of thinning and tigers would do the trick.
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On Dog creek there used to be a lot of Perch. They dumped TM's into it and then you couldn't find a perch to save your life. After they died off now a guy can catch a perch again. I don't think it takes as many to do the trick. The problem is the F&G plant too many. Ron
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I agree, I think they just need a handful of them in there if all they want is to control the perch numbers. There is a small reservoir near my house that has tons of tigers and is catch and release only for them. It used to be a really good largemouth fishery, and now you rarely find decent sized fish because they get eaten before they grow large. The panfish fishing still isn't that good either. Hopefully it works out better for Montpelier.
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I wouldn't bet on it. I am of the opinion that I don't want ANY tigers in any lake I fish. They do more damage than pelicans. Ron
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They are pretty fun to catch, but they're such voracious predators. They will certainly devour the trout and salmon in that reservoir too.
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I wouldnt mind a place that had TM in there. It would be more fun than say a trout only place.
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The problem is if your hook is not catching any fish how fun is that? TM's are hard on the fishery if they are planted to heavy. I know of only one person that ever caught one. To me it is a waste of money. The F&G plant a lake with TM"s then they plant the lake with trout. People complain because they don't catch anything so they dump more trout. It is welfare fishing at it's best. The Government givith and the government taketh away. Ron
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I have caught quite few of them, and they are pretty exciting fights, especially from a float tube. That being said, my best day fishing for them was five hookups in an afternoon, and I only landed 2 or 3 of them. Definitely not a numbers game with musky.
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[size 1]From the Southeast region newsletter

"Biologist spraying vegetable oil on pelican eggs from nests located at Willow Island in Blackfoot Reservoir. The oil prevents hatching and is part of the management strategy being used to reduce predation impacts"

You know what else will prevent hatching? Stepping on the eggs, 100% prevention rate.
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I like the way you think. I was working for a fish hatchery and we had some domestic geese that were raiding our feeders. The domestic geese laid their eggs in the dust and left them. They didn't even sit on them. The sun hatched them. Until we got smart and did some walking in the right place. Ron
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