08-19-2016, 12:30 PM
[#0000FF]I stated that I was neutral on the muskies. That is only because I do not specifically target them. I have caught a few and I enjoy the encounters, but I do not plan my trips around them.
The good thing about the tigers...besides their large size and rod-bending ability...is that they are sterile. If their presence becomes more of a problem than a solution the regs can be changed to encourage harvest and they will disappear. Sterile with no reproduction potential.
I personally believe that a balanced population will only help Jordanelle...by thinning out the smaller sizes of the other species and creating more of a fishery for larger fish. And I know a lot of anglers from Salt Lake and Provo will be happy to have a few toothy critters a bit closer to home.
I didn't touch on the boater traffic issue. I have seen Jordanelle degrade from a formerly mellow place to enjoy fishing...even on some weekends...to a new Pineview. Part of this may be attributable to the loss of Utah Lake as a boating venue. But we have to recognize that the population of our state is growing...and will continue to do so.
I lived a few years in Arizona...with a high percentage of the populace being boat owners...and with limited water resources upon which to open them up and throw roostertails. The increasing open warfare between the power squadron and "others"...slower boaters and anglers...led to the enactment of preventative measures.
On lakes with arms and side channels, some of those were buoyed off as wakeless only. On a couple of the long thin lakes...along the Salt River...the power squadron was limited to running around the lakes in only one direction. That was usually counterclockwise...and it resulted in fewer accidents and "friendly encounters". But every week there are still a lot of tickets issued by the rangers for boozed up idiots who like to go the wrong way on a one-way street...so to speak.
One of the smaller lakes, south of Tucson, actually had restrictions on power craft two or three days a week...during the week...to allow anglers, kayakers, canoe paddlers and other wimpy floaters to enjoy the lake without being swamped.
I would like to see all of the Rock Cliff arm and most of the north arm of Jordanelle closed to the power squadron. That is where a lot of the best fishing is and it becomes scary or impossible to fish well while being rocked by wake waves. And I have never been able to understand why they have to blast by at close range just to show off...or to dump their skier right on top of where you are fishing. There is plenty of open area besides those that could be set up with one-way running for the power-mad folks.
That's my input from the old codger float tubing set.
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The good thing about the tigers...besides their large size and rod-bending ability...is that they are sterile. If their presence becomes more of a problem than a solution the regs can be changed to encourage harvest and they will disappear. Sterile with no reproduction potential.
I personally believe that a balanced population will only help Jordanelle...by thinning out the smaller sizes of the other species and creating more of a fishery for larger fish. And I know a lot of anglers from Salt Lake and Provo will be happy to have a few toothy critters a bit closer to home.
I didn't touch on the boater traffic issue. I have seen Jordanelle degrade from a formerly mellow place to enjoy fishing...even on some weekends...to a new Pineview. Part of this may be attributable to the loss of Utah Lake as a boating venue. But we have to recognize that the population of our state is growing...and will continue to do so.
I lived a few years in Arizona...with a high percentage of the populace being boat owners...and with limited water resources upon which to open them up and throw roostertails. The increasing open warfare between the power squadron and "others"...slower boaters and anglers...led to the enactment of preventative measures.
On lakes with arms and side channels, some of those were buoyed off as wakeless only. On a couple of the long thin lakes...along the Salt River...the power squadron was limited to running around the lakes in only one direction. That was usually counterclockwise...and it resulted in fewer accidents and "friendly encounters". But every week there are still a lot of tickets issued by the rangers for boozed up idiots who like to go the wrong way on a one-way street...so to speak.
One of the smaller lakes, south of Tucson, actually had restrictions on power craft two or three days a week...during the week...to allow anglers, kayakers, canoe paddlers and other wimpy floaters to enjoy the lake without being swamped.
I would like to see all of the Rock Cliff arm and most of the north arm of Jordanelle closed to the power squadron. That is where a lot of the best fishing is and it becomes scary or impossible to fish well while being rocked by wake waves. And I have never been able to understand why they have to blast by at close range just to show off...or to dump their skier right on top of where you are fishing. There is plenty of open area besides those that could be set up with one-way running for the power-mad folks.
That's my input from the old codger float tubing set.
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