04-16-2011, 02:21 PM
You write very well cpierce!
Restoration and preservation of what resources can be controlled is all that can be done. I'm very appreciative of the efforts made by the F&G and all concerned! My fear, even for the upper feeder, is with more ground water being pumped each year, another drought will simply leave the whole system dry. As a kid, we would camp along the shores near the springs, the fishing was amazing. Most of these springs no longer spring and some are quite a distance from the lakes shoreline today. Each fall we would hunt ducks in the hundreds of beaver ponds that fed into the lake. The duck numbers were so thick they would blacken the sky.
Must have been the good old days . . .
Carp have been an issue for as long as I can remember. They used to contract cat food companies to come in and net massive amounts of them. The "Carp Beds" so named for areas where they would load them up in trucks, would run red with blood. The trout were hugely drawn to the area by the smell of the blood in the water. When the netting was completed they would poison the lake. If I remember correctly the area residents always felt the lake was then replanted with carp by the contracting pet food company and so a vicious cycle would repeat itself. The only real control on the carp has always been cyclical. Carp numbers would seem to rise and then drop on a 7 year or so cycle. Their numbers never used to hurt the trout population however.
Thanks again cpierce for your time and input. You do make a difference!
Don
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Restoration and preservation of what resources can be controlled is all that can be done. I'm very appreciative of the efforts made by the F&G and all concerned! My fear, even for the upper feeder, is with more ground water being pumped each year, another drought will simply leave the whole system dry. As a kid, we would camp along the shores near the springs, the fishing was amazing. Most of these springs no longer spring and some are quite a distance from the lakes shoreline today. Each fall we would hunt ducks in the hundreds of beaver ponds that fed into the lake. The duck numbers were so thick they would blacken the sky.
Must have been the good old days . . .
Carp have been an issue for as long as I can remember. They used to contract cat food companies to come in and net massive amounts of them. The "Carp Beds" so named for areas where they would load them up in trucks, would run red with blood. The trout were hugely drawn to the area by the smell of the blood in the water. When the netting was completed they would poison the lake. If I remember correctly the area residents always felt the lake was then replanted with carp by the contracting pet food company and so a vicious cycle would repeat itself. The only real control on the carp has always been cyclical. Carp numbers would seem to rise and then drop on a 7 year or so cycle. Their numbers never used to hurt the trout population however.
Thanks again cpierce for your time and input. You do make a difference!
Don
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