06-14-2013, 04:37 AM
[quote doggonefishin]I like the contributions of both of you guys, but I have to admit that this is kind of entertaining. 
Keep it clean or we'll get the animal pics. 
I suppose if I can offer an opinion, it would be that if the brookies can naturally reproduce without winterkill, then it seems the harvest cannot be high enough. It seems one can tell in the Uintas on the first fish where the lake stands. If they either can't or are thinned by winterkill, then its game on for nice ones. Oh, and yeah, keep the stupid frankentigers out of the high country.[/quote]You're pretty much spot-on. One skinny fish, all skinny fish. But it's incredibly fragile and dynamic. I've seen it change dramatically in one season! I just don't think a radical kill-all scenario will work. Perhaps if a certain body of water that is destined for treatment gets a kill-all-ya-want status implemented it might not be so bad, but those kind of regs can get very involved and complicated. Usually when the fish get this undesirable noone wants them anyway and rotenone is inevitable. I just think a blanket "kill all under 12 inches" plan would open up to much negativeness towards the species so even when the fish happen to be very healthy 12 inchers people will regard them as trash fish and waste or disrespect the resource.
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Keep it clean or we'll get the animal pics. I suppose if I can offer an opinion, it would be that if the brookies can naturally reproduce without winterkill, then it seems the harvest cannot be high enough. It seems one can tell in the Uintas on the first fish where the lake stands. If they either can't or are thinned by winterkill, then its game on for nice ones. Oh, and yeah, keep the stupid frankentigers out of the high country.
[/quote]You're pretty much spot-on. One skinny fish, all skinny fish. But it's incredibly fragile and dynamic. I've seen it change dramatically in one season! I just don't think a radical kill-all scenario will work. Perhaps if a certain body of water that is destined for treatment gets a kill-all-ya-want status implemented it might not be so bad, but those kind of regs can get very involved and complicated. Usually when the fish get this undesirable noone wants them anyway and rotenone is inevitable. I just think a blanket "kill all under 12 inches" plan would open up to much negativeness towards the species so even when the fish happen to be very healthy 12 inchers people will regard them as trash fish and waste or disrespect the resource.[signature]