05-18-2017, 01:53 PM
[quote Therapist] Could be interesting !![/quote]
I don't even think it will be interesting...they have been tried in Minersville before, more than once. And, they failed. In fact, one fall largemouth fry could be seen all over the shorelines. By the next spring, though, they were gone. With the wipers and the smallmouth already there, it could be that any stocked largemouth fry will quickly be consumed anyway.
In my opinion, the DWR is stocking largemouth bass in there not because they will survive and do well but because they won't. I believe they are using this as an opportunity to show people that they won't work. This is similar to moving perch from Fish Lake to Yuba. The DWR knew it wouldn't work, but it made some people happy.
The only way the DWR could feasibly maintain Minersville as a LMB fishery would be to stock it annually with catchable LMB...something we simply do not have the resources for in Utah.
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I don't even think it will be interesting...they have been tried in Minersville before, more than once. And, they failed. In fact, one fall largemouth fry could be seen all over the shorelines. By the next spring, though, they were gone. With the wipers and the smallmouth already there, it could be that any stocked largemouth fry will quickly be consumed anyway.
In my opinion, the DWR is stocking largemouth bass in there not because they will survive and do well but because they won't. I believe they are using this as an opportunity to show people that they won't work. This is similar to moving perch from Fish Lake to Yuba. The DWR knew it wouldn't work, but it made some people happy.
The only way the DWR could feasibly maintain Minersville as a LMB fishery would be to stock it annually with catchable LMB...something we simply do not have the resources for in Utah.
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