white bass in yuba

[fish_fear_me2]

Even the forage fish have to be able to eat something. Utah lake has a far larger variety of small fish than Yuba does and yet on poor spawn years the white bass get pretty skinny. With low water years, poor forage for much of the year I doubt white bass would survive to get plentiful enough for the easy catching you are talking about. Yuba can and is frequently drawn down to mud puddle status. This hurts all species except the carp. The northerns will eat some much larger fish than many of the smaller prey fish. A big Northern can eat a fairly large carp. I dont know much about the preferred diet of Northerns but I am pretty sure that they can and will eat most any fish they can get their mouth around. There is also the gray area of impact on so called native species that PBH brought up. I cant coment one way or the other on that issue but there are a lot of factors to be considered before we introduce a new fish to Yuba or any other lake.
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