07-11-2012, 05:03 PM
First of all, I don't think that removing carp hurts the lake. There's something wrong with the picture of us humans being responsible for putting them in there in the first place and then killing each and every last 1 of them because of that? Do something more humane with them...dump them in a carp only pond or something. People always have this notion to kill kill kill to solve problems.
Farmers are the exact same way when it comes to cattle and live stock. It's in their convenience to put their animals in the forest where they can roam around and get fat...then a cougar or wolf comes and ills their live stock so they get mad and break out the gun.
Along with that comes the I doubt this is EVER going to work because it's a huge lake and even when u get a large majority of them wiped out, they're gonna be spread out EVERYWHERE and eventually rebuild. Plus unless they get them out of the Jordan river as well, they're gonna swim back up and into the lake. Maybe I need to do more June Sucker research BUT as long as people let them go when they catch them, they should be able to regain numbers WITH or WITHOUT carp present in the lake.
I hate to break it to every1 also but if they really annihilate all of these carp, it's only a matter of time before some idiot puts more carp or another species of fish in it. Plus I think its gonna attract more people than it does now once people hear about how it's all carp free and clearer. Expect smaller fish from more people visiting the lake.
I'm not really sure how/why you got so pissed off but I'm sorry for making u feel this way. Regarding comments such as the catching fish, it was in response to some1 who honestly made me lol by saying he wasn't good at catching carp in utah lake out of all places.
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Farmers are the exact same way when it comes to cattle and live stock. It's in their convenience to put their animals in the forest where they can roam around and get fat...then a cougar or wolf comes and ills their live stock so they get mad and break out the gun.
Along with that comes the I doubt this is EVER going to work because it's a huge lake and even when u get a large majority of them wiped out, they're gonna be spread out EVERYWHERE and eventually rebuild. Plus unless they get them out of the Jordan river as well, they're gonna swim back up and into the lake. Maybe I need to do more June Sucker research BUT as long as people let them go when they catch them, they should be able to regain numbers WITH or WITHOUT carp present in the lake.
I hate to break it to every1 also but if they really annihilate all of these carp, it's only a matter of time before some idiot puts more carp or another species of fish in it. Plus I think its gonna attract more people than it does now once people hear about how it's all carp free and clearer. Expect smaller fish from more people visiting the lake.
I'm not really sure how/why you got so pissed off but I'm sorry for making u feel this way. Regarding comments such as the catching fish, it was in response to some1 who honestly made me lol by saying he wasn't good at catching carp in utah lake out of all places.
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