08-08-2018, 08:04 PM
[quote MSM1970]It has been poisoned several times, and now we are at the same point, so I would not call it a success,[/quote]
That's because you fail to recognize what the management plan was. With a management plan that called for frequent rotenone treatments, those treatments certainly were successfull. Each time the lake was treated anglers were greeted with good fishing for 7-8 years followed by ~2 years of bad, followed by another treatment. That was the plan, and the plan worked.
Today the plan is the manage Scofield using hybrid predators better suited at predation on chubs. What is the best strategy to get those hybrids to a point where they can successfully manage the chub population? Should we give the chubs a 15 year head start? Or might it work better to give the predators the head start?
Joe -- I'm not so sure that I agree with your ideas about trout, temperatures, and feeding. What I will say is that maybe Lost Creek could be a good candidate for wipers? I don't know...
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That's because you fail to recognize what the management plan was. With a management plan that called for frequent rotenone treatments, those treatments certainly were successfull. Each time the lake was treated anglers were greeted with good fishing for 7-8 years followed by ~2 years of bad, followed by another treatment. That was the plan, and the plan worked.
Today the plan is the manage Scofield using hybrid predators better suited at predation on chubs. What is the best strategy to get those hybrids to a point where they can successfully manage the chub population? Should we give the chubs a 15 year head start? Or might it work better to give the predators the head start?
Joe -- I'm not so sure that I agree with your ideas about trout, temperatures, and feeding. What I will say is that maybe Lost Creek could be a good candidate for wipers? I don't know...
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