05-14-2016, 04:27 AM
It does get fished out where it is unproductive. Your statement would be challenged by all of the local fisherman who are the pro's. As my home water only one in twenty five trips will I not catch fish over the last 30 years. My problem is the gargantuan fish we are catching now are off of three years of 40,000 6+ plantings which were cut to 22000 last year hence less carryover for next year. It is essentially a lake now from Eagle Rock where the high water mark in the winter is just a foot low, to the Dam. Above there a quarter mile you can easily wade across it in the winter. There is a ten foot vertical drop from Eagle rock to Rattel Snake Island. Already the suburb ecosystem has just been enhanced expodentially. Above there it is a different ecosystem six months out of the year. The pressure this year starting April !st was twenty times the normal when usually there is very little visability as it is just filled for a week in the past. Over the past twenty years no more than one or two boats April 1st this year 60. The fall plantings which commenced in 2012 have been a godsend. Anything you think you know about this lake has been drasticically changed this year. It has probably received 5 times the pressure of all the other lakes in region four combined. It could sustain the growth rate with 60000 fish or more. Having been on the river every inch from the Minidoka Dam to American Falls much of the non boating water is much more shallow and is not equal to the fishing holding waters from the dam to bird island. The channel from Smith Springs to Massacre Rocks boat landing is only about 25' deep.
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