01-27-2009, 03:35 AM
There's been carp in there for as long as I've fished it, which is over 17 years. They seem to coexist ok with the other fish. The dynamics of the the fish has changed dramatically though. My family moved to the street just above the reservoir when I was just 7 years old. It was almost like having a private pond in my own back yard, I remember summer days catching hundreds of hand sized bluegills and even the occasional pumpkinseed from that pond. It seemed like there used to be a lot more largemouth bass in there also, the biggest of them were nearly impossible to catch. I believe there was a massive fish die off/harvest when they rebuilt the dam. During that time I remember catching a monster walleye on a rattle trap that broke the line right as I was pulling him to shore.
After the new earthquake proof dam was finished and the lake was restocked it took a few years for the the fish to repopulate the lake, but this time other types of fish started showing up including white bass, yellow perch, and crappie. More recently they began stocking rainbows and catfish in it after making it a community pond and creating a 4 fish limit. It seems like the hundred bluegill day's with a few bass thrown in the mix are gone, but if you know when and how to fish it right you can still get a mixed bag of very nice fish. I just hope that everyone will treat this lake with respect, pick up your trash, follow the daily bag and possession limit (only 4 fish total from any community pond. On the lake or in the freezer--It is the same until you have eaten the fish and waited one full day.) That being said I would hope that people would harvest more of the rainbows since they are the only fish stocked and let more of the other types of fish go. Wow, this is a long post, sorry for going on for so long but I feel like holmes creek is my hometown lake after having spent so much time there. I'd be interested in hearing more about what the lake was like 30, 40, maybe even 50 years ago. Here are some interesting articles I found about the history of holmes creek:
http://archive.deseretnews.com/archive/5...afety.html
http://archive.deseretnews.com/archive/5...-West.html
Hope you enjoy them and appreciate this little lake within the city even more.
After the new earthquake proof dam was finished and the lake was restocked it took a few years for the the fish to repopulate the lake, but this time other types of fish started showing up including white bass, yellow perch, and crappie. More recently they began stocking rainbows and catfish in it after making it a community pond and creating a 4 fish limit. It seems like the hundred bluegill day's with a few bass thrown in the mix are gone, but if you know when and how to fish it right you can still get a mixed bag of very nice fish. I just hope that everyone will treat this lake with respect, pick up your trash, follow the daily bag and possession limit (only 4 fish total from any community pond. On the lake or in the freezer--It is the same until you have eaten the fish and waited one full day.) That being said I would hope that people would harvest more of the rainbows since they are the only fish stocked and let more of the other types of fish go. Wow, this is a long post, sorry for going on for so long but I feel like holmes creek is my hometown lake after having spent so much time there. I'd be interested in hearing more about what the lake was like 30, 40, maybe even 50 years ago. Here are some interesting articles I found about the history of holmes creek:
http://archive.deseretnews.com/archive/5...afety.html
http://archive.deseretnews.com/archive/5...-West.html
Hope you enjoy them and appreciate this little lake within the city even more.