Chubs, management, and everything else

[Fishbladder]

As far as I'm concerned the DWR is managing our fisheries about like they are managing our big game. Like crap!!!!!! There should never be a water in our state that needs to be poisoned. I remember as a youth fishing Otter Creek countless times and catching nice big fat rainbows.Out of all the years and times I fished it I never caught one single chub!!!!! Yet every 4 or so years they would poison it and ruin it again. Can you imagine what that fishery would be like today if they would have managed it properly instead of doing the quick fix every 4 years. We would be fishing for some world class rainbows!!! When are they going to figure out that big trout eat chubs!!!!!!! Chubs are our friend. So far at Strawberry things are going alright but they better watch it or they will have alot of skinny fish. The same problem they have had at Minersville and now Kolob. Too many fish is also a problem and not enough chubs or perch. They need to manage things yearly based upon gill nettings and samples. If things were done right you would see regulations being changed yearly on every single fishery. Like for instance, one year release the big fish and another year keep a few of them. I agree with selective harvest. Catch and release is not always the answer. Where did these people at the DWR go to school? They need to get them some better books on how to properly manage our wildlife. It's time for them to start doing what every single license holder out there is paying them to do and that is manage things properly!!! The same goes for our big game and the tag numbers. Tag numbers need to be changed yearly!!!!! They need to be based upon harvest, poaching, road kill, drought and habitat, fawn production, predator kills, winter kill,etc.etc.etc. The same thing year in and year out is not working or proper management. It's a very lazy style of management. If proper management was actually taking place you would see fishing regulations and tag numbers being changed drastically every year. Sportsman would actually have to read and carry a proclamation for reference to know what was going on!
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