09-26-2006, 06:03 PM
Uh, from what I can tell on that river, pretty well every group I saw were jumping from spot to spot. It's what I've seen most of them do on all of my trips there. We parked at 3 more spots, fished for a while, and left for Otter Creek. We weren't there all day. Like PBH said, it was a busy day on that river.
I saw what I saw, my mom saw it. If you didn't, well, you're missing out on a very
sight. Fish were dying. White bellies in a school of black sorta stands out. And maybe they were from improper release on fish. I don't know. All I know is that yeah, I did see dead fish in Marysvale Canyon, particularly in one stretch.
The Smallmouth didn't get a chance. Just look at the habitat. Honestly, it reminds me of the Coquille River in Oregon. Lots of SM in that river, along with resident trout and runs of salmon. When you see 2 or 3 hundred young of the year SM dead, it indicates there was a possiblity there. I've caught them out of Otter Creek's spillway before, and in rather large sizes. From what I've seen there, too, rough fish numbers are down. Only problem, as PBH said, is the water flows. I know bass can contend with high water; They'd take it to their advantage. What they'd need is just a minimum flow durring the off-irrigation season. Then both trout and bass would benefit.
It's not right for this to happen at the Sevier river, Koosharem Reservoir, or any other place in the state for that matter. It shouldn't matter where it is. It should get publicity, and have something done about it ASAP. I documented what I did on the Sevier, and I'd like to see something done about it. At the very least the DWR should have told anglers to get down there and take those fish before they died. The fish should at least be used by anglers rather than having it rot all down the river.
One thing that kinda fries me about the Sevier, too, is that Otter Creek is still having water let out of it. And now it's lower than Piute. There's already snow in the mountains. It wouldn't hurt to put a little bit of water down the river. But now the reservoirs going to be closer to the top. And what's going to happen next spring when Piute is full with run off still coming in? More flooding? It just doesn't make any sense to me at all.
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I saw what I saw, my mom saw it. If you didn't, well, you're missing out on a very
sight. Fish were dying. White bellies in a school of black sorta stands out. And maybe they were from improper release on fish. I don't know. All I know is that yeah, I did see dead fish in Marysvale Canyon, particularly in one stretch. The Smallmouth didn't get a chance. Just look at the habitat. Honestly, it reminds me of the Coquille River in Oregon. Lots of SM in that river, along with resident trout and runs of salmon. When you see 2 or 3 hundred young of the year SM dead, it indicates there was a possiblity there. I've caught them out of Otter Creek's spillway before, and in rather large sizes. From what I've seen there, too, rough fish numbers are down. Only problem, as PBH said, is the water flows. I know bass can contend with high water; They'd take it to their advantage. What they'd need is just a minimum flow durring the off-irrigation season. Then both trout and bass would benefit.
It's not right for this to happen at the Sevier river, Koosharem Reservoir, or any other place in the state for that matter. It shouldn't matter where it is. It should get publicity, and have something done about it ASAP. I documented what I did on the Sevier, and I'd like to see something done about it. At the very least the DWR should have told anglers to get down there and take those fish before they died. The fish should at least be used by anglers rather than having it rot all down the river.
One thing that kinda fries me about the Sevier, too, is that Otter Creek is still having water let out of it. And now it's lower than Piute. There's already snow in the mountains. It wouldn't hurt to put a little bit of water down the river. But now the reservoirs going to be closer to the top. And what's going to happen next spring when Piute is full with run off still coming in? More flooding? It just doesn't make any sense to me at all.
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