04-02-2014, 08:28 PM
[#0000FF]My personal observations are just that. As a float tuber I get more "up close and personal" and can often watch fishy interactions from within a few feet. In the years after perch fishing was opened again on Yuba, and before the pike came thundering on, I fished Yuba more often. And yes, I did observe groups of carp acting like a wolf pack and herding schools of 1" new perch fry into small pockets and decimating them. There have not been enough perch hatching since then to create that scenario. Also, I HAVE "opened" a few carp for CSI purposes. I NEVER release a carp unharmed. And I have found perch up to 4 or 5 inches inside carp in Yuba.
As the man said when his wife walked in upon him and his secretary..."Who you gonna believe...me or your lyin' eyes?"
I respect your background and your overall knowledge of all things piscatorial. But I sometimes get weary of having every "layman" statement stomped into the ground with rhetoric and citations of non-related studies in other states that are largely not applicable to a specific lake or species. And I also resent the hell out of the fact that whenever anybody else expresses an opinion contrary to your own they are labeled as "ignorant".
"The crash will come". Yeah, and so will the apocalypse...and the millennium...and Christmas. Utah Lake has been producing lots of big walleyes since the 1950s, without help (or interference) from any government agency. Their population rises and falls with water fluctuations and subsequent forage species fluctuations. Right now they are in their multi thousands with many over 10 pounds. And all fish caught have copious visceral fat. They are not stunting.
Where do you predict the next stunting or crash of walleyes will occur?
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As the man said when his wife walked in upon him and his secretary..."Who you gonna believe...me or your lyin' eyes?"
I respect your background and your overall knowledge of all things piscatorial. But I sometimes get weary of having every "layman" statement stomped into the ground with rhetoric and citations of non-related studies in other states that are largely not applicable to a specific lake or species. And I also resent the hell out of the fact that whenever anybody else expresses an opinion contrary to your own they are labeled as "ignorant".
"The crash will come". Yeah, and so will the apocalypse...and the millennium...and Christmas. Utah Lake has been producing lots of big walleyes since the 1950s, without help (or interference) from any government agency. Their population rises and falls with water fluctuations and subsequent forage species fluctuations. Right now they are in their multi thousands with many over 10 pounds. And all fish caught have copious visceral fat. They are not stunting.
Where do you predict the next stunting or crash of walleyes will occur?
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