04-07-2010, 04:33 AM
I have never figured out the obsession that Utah has with removing chubs, redsides, and other forage species from the system. I guess that it is because we have always been focused on quantity vs quality. Look at Yuba, it has such a fluxuation in perch and the game fish suffer. Starvation has similar problems because the chubs are all but gone. Flaming Gorge suffers from a lack of forage, no chubs, very few crawdads. Fewer and fewer big browns, rainbows, and macs.
30 years ago I advocated that DWR trap the chubs in Strawberry and restock Utah Lake with them. It would have solved the lack of forage there and reduced the
"problem" at Strawberry.( Chubs are native to Utah Lake, therefore they could be stocked without problems with the June Sucker). The hatchery trucks always make two trips, one up loaded with trout and one back empty. All they had to do was load them with chubs and dump em at the harbor.
What are the Tigers and Bear Lake Cutts going to eat when the chubs are gone ???? As TD says, the only ones left are pretty big and pretty old. Most of the little ones get munched every year. Quit sweating the chubs, they are not going to be a problem !!!!
30 years ago I advocated that DWR trap the chubs in Strawberry and restock Utah Lake with them. It would have solved the lack of forage there and reduced the
"problem" at Strawberry.( Chubs are native to Utah Lake, therefore they could be stocked without problems with the June Sucker). The hatchery trucks always make two trips, one up loaded with trout and one back empty. All they had to do was load them with chubs and dump em at the harbor.
What are the Tigers and Bear Lake Cutts going to eat when the chubs are gone ???? As TD says, the only ones left are pretty big and pretty old. Most of the little ones get munched every year. Quit sweating the chubs, they are not going to be a problem !!!!