05-21-2019, 04:07 PM
You wrote:
"The 2014 report by USU (excellent read IMO) mentions high densities of the wrong kinds of algae and insufficient numbers of daphnia. Daphnia by the way is the key to growing the fat rainbows that you guys love so much. Rainbows can grow fat, dumb, and happy on nothing more that daphnia and chironomids. Problem? Chubs target the exact same food supply."
That is exactly the kind of information I needed to help me understand this issue better. Not surprising that it came from a fly fisherman. Thank you.
So does rotenone only kill fish, not insects and crustaceans or other life forms in a body of water?
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"The 2014 report by USU (excellent read IMO) mentions high densities of the wrong kinds of algae and insufficient numbers of daphnia. Daphnia by the way is the key to growing the fat rainbows that you guys love so much. Rainbows can grow fat, dumb, and happy on nothing more that daphnia and chironomids. Problem? Chubs target the exact same food supply."
That is exactly the kind of information I needed to help me understand this issue better. Not surprising that it came from a fly fisherman. Thank you.
So does rotenone only kill fish, not insects and crustaceans or other life forms in a body of water?
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The older I get the more I would rather be considered a good man than a good fisherman.