Bountiful pond-Wiper

[FishNCoach]

[font "Calibri"]I just got confirmation that there is now 1000s of small Wiper that was planted in the Bountiful Pond, Another Place in Utah for Wiper [] someday it will be great fishing there for Wiper. [fishin][/font]
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[UtahShooter]

Never great fishing at Bountiful Pond. Well not for the last 5 years or so.
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[DKStroutfitter]

I hope that they work out there.
They will sure help clean up the trash fish that are in there.
The good thing about Wiper is that if they don't work out, they are sterile and you can just quit stocking them.
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[Springbuck]

I live right down there, maybe I'll go see what size they planted. The place generally doesn't interest me much, but I know there is a wide variety of species there.
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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]Sadly, the fish that make it past the six inch size will probably be "harvested" before they can get much bigger. I have never seen a lake that has so much "subsistance" fishing going on. Some of the locals treat it as their own personal fish market.[/#0000ff]
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[Springbuck]

True. I have seen a lot of "expanded limits" taken away from there. One of the few places I've mentioned it to someone. An undercover DWR officer could write 20 tickets in an afternoon there.
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[Kent]

When I was assisting the UDWR with their youth fishing group at Bountiful, one of their employees reported an experience with a fish harvester. He was stocking the lake with cat fish and a guy was putting his net in the stream of water as it left the fish truck and netting the fish before they could even reach the lake. He told the guy if he didn't turn the fish loose that he would call someone and have him arrested. Reluctantly, the guy turned the fish loose. Now that is a fish harvester if I ever heard of one.
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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]TubeBabe and I also participated in the Youth Program at Bountiful. Catfish were planted on Monday and by Wednesday none of the kids could even catch a fish. Just for my own education I went up there on Monday night and was apalled. Several "extended families" had lines in the water every five feet around the east side of the lake. There were only two or three adults and the rest were kids...usually off playing somewhere while the adults reeled in the fish and rebaited lines. If anybody else even looked like they wanted to fish in those areas they got a lot of "attitude". "HEY, WE'RE FISHING THERE."[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]In the short time I was there I saw two guys haul a big net full of freshly planted catfish back to their vehicles and return for more. Phone calls to HQ received no followup response. When I mentioned it to our DWR rep for the Wednesday night program a couple of days later I was told the same old story. Not enough people to cover all the waters.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Not sure I agree with planting fish for the locals to harvest before others have a shot at them.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As I said, I will be surprised if any of the wipers ever get beyond the 12 inch mark.[/#0000ff]
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[albinotrout]

Nice to see that they are in there but alas they won't be there for more than two or three days before the happy harvesters take them all home.[mad] I personally wish the DWR would patrol that area a little more than they do. I do understand the understaffed issue though.[:/] Lets hope some do escape the fishing frenzy and they do get to be a good size.
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[MarineSpear]

Any chance you have seen the water clearity the last couple of days? I'm interested in going after a couple carp for bait but would need pretty clear water in order to spearfish. thanks!!
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[DKStroutfitter]

If everyone calls the DWR Hot Line, every time that they see over limits taken, things will get better.
Get all the info that you can, including license plate numbers. When a complain it called in there must be a response to the call.
this doesn't mean that an Officer will show up in a timely manor but they will call you back and let you know what they can do.
when the same people get reported multiple times, it makes it easier to catch them.

Please make the call when you see poaching of fish. Your eyes are out there and they can make a difference.
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[Jiggety]

I am a local, and I haven't harvested a fish from this water in over 8 years. When it became a hard fought battle to catch anything there I stopped taking home fish. I have fished here for over a decade and have watched it turn from a fairly good lake to a fish market. The "locals" that are taking fish are anything but locals, and are usually quite far from home.
I too have called in many lawbreakers and seen minimal response. Seems to me that this should be one of the most patrolled waters in the state IMO.
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[albinotrout]

I used to see DWR there all the time. Now whenever I go they are non existant. But I too have stopped fishing there for the fish are nonexistant as well. Maybe this week I will see if the wiper population was able to get through the weekend nonsense.
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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]Wipers are planted either as "sac fry" or as fingerlings. You might need a pretty small fly to tempt one. But that might be your only shot at them before they get slightly bigger and get caught out.[/#0000ff]
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