10-26-2009, 01:30 PM
It doesn't sound good for Yuba. I noticed that fungus (?) as well.
Like Tubedude, I will give it a couple more tries for pike before ice over.
I don't believe that the fish are just off the bite, I tend to believe that the pike, and perhaps disease have eradicated the perch and walleye. The little yearling perch shows that there was a spawn this spring, What happened to the other year classes? Was it the pike or? I can't explain it unless it was the water wolves.
It's a complex problem with no solution in sight. Perhaps we'll have to return the reservoir to the water babies for their exclusive use.
One poor fishing day does not necessarily spell the demise of Yuba, however plenty of good fishermen have covered her waters for walleye and perch with very little or no success. That alone is a bad sign.
As for the pike, they are opportunistic feeders and their bellies might be filled with yearling perch, but thanks to the DWR's encourging anglers to kill them the numbers and size of the fish has continued to decline.
I don't profess to have the answers, I'm simply disappointed that those we pay to over see this fishery doesn't either. I guess my expectations were too high. Pez Vela
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Like Tubedude, I will give it a couple more tries for pike before ice over.
I don't believe that the fish are just off the bite, I tend to believe that the pike, and perhaps disease have eradicated the perch and walleye. The little yearling perch shows that there was a spawn this spring, What happened to the other year classes? Was it the pike or? I can't explain it unless it was the water wolves.
It's a complex problem with no solution in sight. Perhaps we'll have to return the reservoir to the water babies for their exclusive use.
One poor fishing day does not necessarily spell the demise of Yuba, however plenty of good fishermen have covered her waters for walleye and perch with very little or no success. That alone is a bad sign.
As for the pike, they are opportunistic feeders and their bellies might be filled with yearling perch, but thanks to the DWR's encourging anglers to kill them the numbers and size of the fish has continued to decline.
I don't profess to have the answers, I'm simply disappointed that those we pay to over see this fishery doesn't either. I guess my expectations were too high. Pez Vela
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