04-19-2011, 02:10 AM
You are right and we are lucky to live where the trout fishing is some of the best to be found.
I have heard many say how good Blackfoot used to be, Here and in person from old timers or just fisherman with a passion to learn all they can about our area. I have heard it was the premier fishery around years ago. It wasn't the South Fork, it was the Blackfoot you went if you wanted big fish and lots of them.
I may be wrong but isn't it a fairly young reservoir. Filled in the 50's or 60's? What happened to it during the drought of the mid/late 70's? Did that hurt it like this last one? Did the reservoir itself make the spawning decline but took years for that to take its toll and become apparent? Were the water rights used different then? The pelicans weren't around like they are now. The willows seem like a good idea to help, fences also. Would the F&G pursue that if they had volunteer resources to help?
At the same time it is a shallow reservoir, you hear lots about how good the fishing used to be (I guess you hear that about lots of other places), a unique problem with a bird population out of control, and tons of carp.
It's current situation does promote some thoughts of different things that can be done with it.
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I have heard many say how good Blackfoot used to be, Here and in person from old timers or just fisherman with a passion to learn all they can about our area. I have heard it was the premier fishery around years ago. It wasn't the South Fork, it was the Blackfoot you went if you wanted big fish and lots of them.
I may be wrong but isn't it a fairly young reservoir. Filled in the 50's or 60's? What happened to it during the drought of the mid/late 70's? Did that hurt it like this last one? Did the reservoir itself make the spawning decline but took years for that to take its toll and become apparent? Were the water rights used different then? The pelicans weren't around like they are now. The willows seem like a good idea to help, fences also. Would the F&G pursue that if they had volunteer resources to help?
At the same time it is a shallow reservoir, you hear lots about how good the fishing used to be (I guess you hear that about lots of other places), a unique problem with a bird population out of control, and tons of carp.
It's current situation does promote some thoughts of different things that can be done with it.
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