02-04-2013, 09:57 PM
I only threw Minersville in to compare water temperatures and elevation. There is no doubt that the two reservoirs are different. But trout THRIVED in Yuba while they could grow from the 4 to 6 inch range to the size that Tube Dude showed us the picture of. The Northern Pike didn't eat the trout of the size in that picture either. The UDWR quit planting the little ones, because the LITTLE ones got eaten by the pike and all of the big ones got caught by fisherfolks. The food chain could have changed enough that even without being eaten by pike that the trout wouldn't grow as well as the first few batches did. But there is no reason to believe that trout wouldn't do well in Yuba because of temperatures. The pictures don't lie.
Complain all you want about management at Yuba. The UDWR was begging people to harvest a limit of pike. Not to try to eliminate pike, just to see if the population could be kept in check while the perch rebounded. But, MAN, what an outcry from the 'anything but trout' crowd. If federal regulations prohibit the introduction of new species what else are ya gonna do? They planted perch. They bent over backwards to get adult perch as well as fingerling. They tried to limit the harvest of perch to allow them to make a comeback, but everybody wanted to run down and get a limit of hogs from Yuba. Without stable water levels you're not gonna get much of an improvement. And every pike in there has to eat something. The biggest ones can eat carp all year long. But the 15 to 20 inchers are gonna do nothing but eat any perch that gets hatched.
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Complain all you want about management at Yuba. The UDWR was begging people to harvest a limit of pike. Not to try to eliminate pike, just to see if the population could be kept in check while the perch rebounded. But, MAN, what an outcry from the 'anything but trout' crowd. If federal regulations prohibit the introduction of new species what else are ya gonna do? They planted perch. They bent over backwards to get adult perch as well as fingerling. They tried to limit the harvest of perch to allow them to make a comeback, but everybody wanted to run down and get a limit of hogs from Yuba. Without stable water levels you're not gonna get much of an improvement. And every pike in there has to eat something. The biggest ones can eat carp all year long. But the 15 to 20 inchers are gonna do nothing but eat any perch that gets hatched.
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