07-01-2013, 10:03 PM
I don't know about the greedy farmers. As far as I know most of them down there are fine folks just trying to make a living. The same way their grand dads did when "they" put the dam in to hold some water to make it through the summer. "They did not put the dam in to have a place to go fishing.
I believe there are more water management problems above the lake than below. Not so much caused by greed, but out dated controls and lack of oversight. Next time you drive from the lake to Beaver just look at some of the boggs, so soggy a cow does not even want to walk across it.
Believe me I understand not wanting to loose Minersville just as it is starting to kick out some great fishing.
What is the conservation pool, 2500 acre feet. If Minersville did get down to 2500 acre feet, the trout would not survive a week of the weather we are having right now. That has always been the problem with a way too small conservation pool.
If the DWR could get another 2500 acre feet of "first rights" water from the upper Beaver River then you might have a real working conservation pool. Th
If it gets to the point that it looks like the whole lake is going to go belly up. Then I say yes drop all the regs and let every body take what they want.
Even though it was
. It was still fun to watch all the kids line the bank and yank out one toad after another on power bait last time they dropped the regs.
Minersville has always lived on the edge as a trout fishery. It has gone from boom to bust many times. If it does survive the summer it is going to be as good as it has ever been come next spring.
Keep your fingers crossed.
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I believe there are more water management problems above the lake than below. Not so much caused by greed, but out dated controls and lack of oversight. Next time you drive from the lake to Beaver just look at some of the boggs, so soggy a cow does not even want to walk across it.
Believe me I understand not wanting to loose Minersville just as it is starting to kick out some great fishing.
What is the conservation pool, 2500 acre feet. If Minersville did get down to 2500 acre feet, the trout would not survive a week of the weather we are having right now. That has always been the problem with a way too small conservation pool.
If the DWR could get another 2500 acre feet of "first rights" water from the upper Beaver River then you might have a real working conservation pool. Th
If it gets to the point that it looks like the whole lake is going to go belly up. Then I say yes drop all the regs and let every body take what they want.
Even though it was
. It was still fun to watch all the kids line the bank and yank out one toad after another on power bait last time they dropped the regs.Minersville has always lived on the edge as a trout fishery. It has gone from boom to bust many times. If it does survive the summer it is going to be as good as it has ever been come next spring.
Keep your fingers crossed.
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