11-03-2009, 12:07 PM
[quote albinotrout]
Well having never fished yuba before, I guess it will be longer yet. Hope it makes a comeback before too long. From other posts earlier last month it looks like there are a lot of small perch fry that need some growing up. Any ideas on what the DWR will do with it to help it come back?[/quote]
[cool][#0000ff]Don't blame DWR for anything to do with Yuba. Not much they can do to "manage" that lake since it is controlled by the water users and mother nature. Anglers have very little to do with the ecology. The best DWR can do is monitor the lake and report on their findings.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Those baby perch will likely never reach adulthood. Besides being heavily consumed by larger perch they are just reaching the right size to be interesting to walleyes and pike. And, while it seems like there are a lot of them, they are not in there by the millions as in years past. Last year there were huge schools of them in the basin near the dam. Hardly any on sonar yesterday.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have lived and fished through several "boom and bust" cycles on Yuba. It is always the same. There will be one year when the balance tips...between predators and prey (baby perch) and then all species CRASH. It takes several years for the survivors to propagate and rebuild the populations to numbers great enough to provide good fishing.[/#0000ff]
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Well having never fished yuba before, I guess it will be longer yet. Hope it makes a comeback before too long. From other posts earlier last month it looks like there are a lot of small perch fry that need some growing up. Any ideas on what the DWR will do with it to help it come back?[/quote]
[cool][#0000ff]Don't blame DWR for anything to do with Yuba. Not much they can do to "manage" that lake since it is controlled by the water users and mother nature. Anglers have very little to do with the ecology. The best DWR can do is monitor the lake and report on their findings.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Those baby perch will likely never reach adulthood. Besides being heavily consumed by larger perch they are just reaching the right size to be interesting to walleyes and pike. And, while it seems like there are a lot of them, they are not in there by the millions as in years past. Last year there were huge schools of them in the basin near the dam. Hardly any on sonar yesterday.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have lived and fished through several "boom and bust" cycles on Yuba. It is always the same. There will be one year when the balance tips...between predators and prey (baby perch) and then all species CRASH. It takes several years for the survivors to propagate and rebuild the populations to numbers great enough to provide good fishing.[/#0000ff]
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