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just wondering how that pike limit increase is going down at yuba?
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Well, last year i could have filled my 20 pike limit 3 times over in a day...... this year I can spend a full 10 hours fishing for about 8-15 fish.

Now nearly every fish we are catching are over 8 pounds, so its a ton of fun, but it doesn't seem to have the rediculious numbers they had last year.
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[quote Hoola_bob]Well, last year i could have filled my 20 pike limit 3 times over in a day...... this year I can spend a full 10 hours fishing for about 8-15 fish.

Now nearly every fish we are catching are over 8 pounds, so its a ton of fun, but it doesn't seem to have the rediculious numbers they had last year.[/quote]

wow. That sounds fun. I can't tell from your reply, but are you happy with this, or ?



8 - 15 fish over 8#'s in a day. Sounds like a ton of fun to me. Much more fun than hammer-handles all day long....
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Ummm I am super happy to catch those fish! I am that there are so many big ones all at once because it means all the food will be gone and it will take a while for anything to come back in the lake. 8+ pound pike have 5-8 yellow perch in their belly when you fillet them (each) and they will eat an 18 inch walleye without discrimination if they get a chance.

anyways, the pike are way fun so the trip its self was amazing.
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It sounds better to me. Sounds like increasing the limit did just what they were trying to do. It will be nice to catch bigger fish there rather than a boat load of tiny ones.
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I hope it works like they expect I actaully would agree catcing some small, and some big, and actually having some walleye and perch would be a good thing.

We kept everything we pulled out of the lake (since they are very tasty fish I didn't mind at all) just to do our part.

I actually think they waited to long and the big females are eating the smaller males.... which is why it makes me . We need those little guys to make more big gals.
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According to the old guy that runs the lakeside marina at fish lake they took out about 60,000 perch to transplant to Yuba last year. So the State had a pretty good Pike feeding program. With the larger Pike are you seeing as many Carp in there?
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It is funny you mention the perch from fish lake. Our first trip out to Yuba was just after they had started releasing them them, a week after I think, and I believe that is why I am seeing so many pike with a lot of perch in their belly.

Carp we are still seeing the big ones making a mess, but actually seeing less of the little to medium sized ones and we have pulled out several pike with a half a carp in its belly on top of the perch. The pike may be helping with that, but I think the perch transplant gives them an easier meal and they are less likely to kill a medium size carp.
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