M-ville over the weekend

[Big Sky]

The chubs have been kept in check by the wipers and it is a success story at Minersville. However the majority of mature sized wipers are no longer in Minersville, hence the reason for my concern. The 4000+ wipers they did put in are smaller than a lot of the chubs. So it will be a year or two before they have any affect on the chub population.

I respectfully disagree, even the original post on this thread tells the story that there are plenty of bigger wipers left in the lake to take care of any chubs that will come back in the lake this Fall and Winter. Wipers over 14" will eat plenty of young of the year chubs and a 6 lb wiper can eat all but the largest chubs, up to 10 and 12". Here is the part of the post I was talking about:

richyd4u
 My oldest daughter and I set out on the kayaks the first evening and immediately hooked into two very large and powerful Wipers...they are so fun! My daughter was able to get hers up to the kayak after a long battle, but I had the net and was nearly to her when it regained some strength and made one last run and broker her off. We were bummed we didn't get a pic, but it was around 6 lbs or so. My Wiper hit me and gave some awesome drag-screaming runs and then came unbuttoned. As soon as we had hooked those two fish, they disappeared, as wipers tend to do...always moving.

The 4446 wipers they put in on 8/12/2021 were 2.16" long. They will have little to no effect on the chubs this coming year. While there are some mature wipers still in Minersville, they are darn few and far between. Seriously when was the last time you fished there or talked to anyone that has seen a school of more than 20 fish in there in the last month? Good luck finding anyone that has seen a significant boil on there in the last month or two as well. I see the lake pretty much every day and I haven't seen a single significant boil in months.