joes valley

[brookie_fish]

[frown] fished joes a few times this month and have some good news and bad news. The fish are hungry! in 3 trips never once iced a chub, However I was able to hook up on several fish. All of them 12- 15 inch splake one had a 3 inch pine cone in its belly and they look like torpedoes with large heads. we had a local derby on saturday and the winner was a 16 inch splake one pound and like seven oz and no one caught any chubs some folks never even got a bite. The tiger musky have been effective but to say to effective. I posted on the big fish challange 2 of the larger ones.
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[wormandbobber]

A reduction of chubs should really help the splake--especially those small ones--put on some weight. My bet is that the chubs are there and their numbers haven't been affected by the TMs. Catching chubs during the winter is usually fairly difficult and doesn't happen with much regularity.

What will be interesting is to see what the splake survival rates are now that the reservoir has TMs...and if the TMs influence their growth rates.
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[fuzzyfisher]

hey man it's all in where ya fish... it took me 5 years fishing JV before i even seen a fish bigger then 21 inchs all we caught was small snake looking splake.. then i found the area and bait they like. i realy dont think the chub have been all munched up by the Tiger muskys. last summer up there me and my boy's filled a buckit of chub in about 2 hours so they are still in there. and there are some big tiger trout in there and some big cutt's. and monster splake.. have been for years they did not do much damage to the chub so 500 to 1000 tiger musky will not do very much ether. we need to hook up, up there and do some splake hunting.. [sly]..
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