01-04-2025, 11:57 PM
(01-04-2025, 05:45 PM)castnshoot Wrote: 1. Do you enjoy seeing them fish, or would you rather not have them around.
2. Do you think they affect the quality of your fishery.
3. Do you know if your body of water has a nesting pair, if so do you know where it is at, if so, is it on a natural structure or a man made structure, and if you know how ,long has it been in use?
4. Do you have any insight as to why I should, or should not go forward?
Osprey are cool, just like bald eagles and yes I enjoy seeing them.
I do think they have some effect on at least one fishery I was fishing last year, Lost creek. I found several kokes I caught that had claw marks on their bodies.
Yes, there is at least one nesting pair at that lake. I know the general location of where they nest and it is in a rocky cliff. The nest has been there several years.
My thoughts on them is, it is likely they will be feeding on trout in your lake, when they are near the surface, how much trout they will take is unclear, maybe the DWR could answer that question.