05-28-2004, 05:17 PM
Boy, what a great discussion this thread is! Experts or not, you guys are awesome! I, for one, feel like we have enough trout water in the state and would like to see Utah Lake--if it were diked, as is being proposed--to become a much better bass fishery.
I don't know if the carp destroyed it or not (probably), but maybe a few of you old timers can remember how great a little section of Utah Lake was about ten years ago. It is called Mud Lake, and it's down in Lake Shore. I used to duck hunt in Mud Lake ten years ago, and it was absolutely fantastic!
As I'd patrol the ten-foot-high stands of cattails and bullrushes in chest waders, the water was very clear, right down to the bottom. Ducks would fly in by the hundreds in this little lake, but now the standing vegetation is all gone. It doesn't resemble anything of what it once was. I've been wondering what happened, but after reading some of your comments concerning the destructive ways of the carp, it's possible they ate it all.
All of this may sound a bit naive, and I'm definitely no expert, but it stands to reason that something ate the vegetation, since nothing mechanical or poisionous destroyed it that I'm aware of.
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I don't know if the carp destroyed it or not (probably), but maybe a few of you old timers can remember how great a little section of Utah Lake was about ten years ago. It is called Mud Lake, and it's down in Lake Shore. I used to duck hunt in Mud Lake ten years ago, and it was absolutely fantastic!
As I'd patrol the ten-foot-high stands of cattails and bullrushes in chest waders, the water was very clear, right down to the bottom. Ducks would fly in by the hundreds in this little lake, but now the standing vegetation is all gone. It doesn't resemble anything of what it once was. I've been wondering what happened, but after reading some of your comments concerning the destructive ways of the carp, it's possible they ate it all.
All of this may sound a bit naive, and I'm definitely no expert, but it stands to reason that something ate the vegetation, since nothing mechanical or poisionous destroyed it that I'm aware of.
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