03-22-2017, 03:01 PM
PBH,
You are great at parsing opinions and responding to the part of a post you want and ignoring the bigger picture.
There's more to the forest than the little tree you want to discuss here.
Thanks for the link to the glowing report about poisoning prepared by the Fish Chemicals Subcommittee which did nothing to address the specific difficulties of Yuba.
Kill all the bad fish you want in Yuba and in dry years you'll have an empty mud puddle instead of a carp infested mud puddle.
Anglers don't care about either of those.
Since you seem completely unwilling to address the habitat part of the equation, I see no reason to alter my opinion Yuba is a waste of time and money to manage.
By the way, Scofield has the same problem for the last several years. It's been hovering near 30% full with almost no flooded vegetation areas to provide good food sources to sport fish and low oxygen levels in the winters. Its essentially been a mud puddle breeding ground for Chubs.
We'll see what happens this year when it actually gets some water.
Scofield, however, is a place I would support a treatment because it has a much better track record as a habitat for sport fish.
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You are great at parsing opinions and responding to the part of a post you want and ignoring the bigger picture.
There's more to the forest than the little tree you want to discuss here.
Thanks for the link to the glowing report about poisoning prepared by the Fish Chemicals Subcommittee which did nothing to address the specific difficulties of Yuba.
Kill all the bad fish you want in Yuba and in dry years you'll have an empty mud puddle instead of a carp infested mud puddle.
Anglers don't care about either of those.
Since you seem completely unwilling to address the habitat part of the equation, I see no reason to alter my opinion Yuba is a waste of time and money to manage.
By the way, Scofield has the same problem for the last several years. It's been hovering near 30% full with almost no flooded vegetation areas to provide good food sources to sport fish and low oxygen levels in the winters. Its essentially been a mud puddle breeding ground for Chubs.
We'll see what happens this year when it actually gets some water.
Scofield, however, is a place I would support a treatment because it has a much better track record as a habitat for sport fish.
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