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Wow nice bass .
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Thanks.
I forgot to say that I caught those in the middle of October last year when the water temperature was 48-49 degrees. I caught four bass and four rainbows in eight hours of kicken around in my tube. I knew there were bass in there, I just didn't expect them to be active that late in the year.[fishin]
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I've been wondering the same thing. I'd imagine the ice is off it it's off at Chesterfield. Now we just need some stable weather.
I have mixed feelings about the bass too. They are really healthy in there, and I'll be honest, I prefer bass fishing to trout fishing, but they do have a point about it being the only trophy trout water in the area. I just received an email from the regional biologist and he said they took 400+ bass out of there last fall and transferred them to a nearby bass water that needed them. That should help thin the herd a little a bit at Treasureton and allow the remaining fish the ability to grow larger as well as re-establish the other fishery.
The bass will keep biting in pretty cold water. I was catching them well into November last year. They should be getting active pretty soon here too.
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The problem is the competition for the same food. No panfish. Unless the bass are aggressively removed by anglers/F&G, they will over populate and stunt themselves and the trout. Nobody will be happy with that.
If enough bass are removed every year, it might continue to work for awhile, so don't catch and release them. If you are releasing the bass, "to grow and catch again", you are helping to doom all of the fish in there to a mediocre growth rate, and an eventual poisoning.
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This wasn't really aimed at you gstott, just general information for everyone.
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Yeah, I guess they can only grow so large on invertebrates and that's probably why we aren't seeing many larger fish. Perhaps the larger ones have been feeding on the fingerling trout that have been stocked in there, but that's certainly not preferable.
I plan on going up there on a few fish taco collecting trips this year. The only thing I don't like about fishing up there is that I have to pinch the barbs down on all my nice bass lures. Perhaps I'll just stick to fishing plastics when I'm at Treasureton as pinching a couple of hooks is preferable to messing up a bunch of high end hard baits.
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I ordered 3 of the lv-100 Lucky Craft lures you recomended . They have split rings that hold the hooks on , so it wouldn't be to hard to change the hooks out . I watched some youtube videos on these lures . Some of the people using them are putting on larger hooks for better catch rates .
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That trasnplantin of 400+ is the best news I've herd all day. I have had withdrawals of my favorite bass lake..
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Cool, I hope you like them. They're one of my favorite lipless cranks, and that's saying a lot, as I've got a couple hundred of them. I've switched the hooks out on most of them, especially since several of them came directly from Japan where they seem to like really fine, light wire hooks. They're sharp, but the gap is really narrow on them, and they get bent pretty easily, especially by big trout. I put #4 KVD triple grips or Owner cutting points on mine.
I was thinking about Treasureton during my long, boring day of work today, and I decided I should just make a small box of hardbaits for when I go there. I have enough I can probably just put a handfull aside that I think would be productive there, and pinch the barbs. I can always switch them out later like you said.
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I thought it was pretty good news. It helped brighten my mood a little on a snowy, nasty day.
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On treasureton only SINGLE barbless hook right? What is the best way to use a crank bait with only one hook? Thanks
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It doesn't specify single in the regulations, and the board at Sportsman's Warehouse mentioned people using Rapalas there, so I think trebles are okay as long as the barbs are pinched.
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