10-20-2023, 02:30 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-20-2023, 02:32 AM by wiperhunter2.)
I ask Chris a few more question, you can read them below then the reply from Chris.
Thanks much Chris. That is some very interesting info and from what I could see, the placement of the nets are in a different location than they are in the Spring when you are just going after walleye, at least the 2 nets we saw on Tues. Great news on the walleye and the wiper numbers. Members are reporting higher numbers of small wipers being caught, around 6", would those be this years stocked wipers? What are the palmetto strain wipers?
"Yes, we place our nets in different locations for our fall trend netting. The walleye nets are set parallel to shore as shallow as we can without getting hung up on the dike - this allows us to focus only on fish coming into the shallows in the spring, which is geared towards spawning walleye. Our fall nets are spread along the north, west and south shores and are meant to survey catfish, wiper and walleye. We get some data on the perch, crappie and bass but not enough to make reliable inferences with as those species require different gears to catch. The palmetto strain are fish we spawned here in Utah from striper eggs and white bass milt. These fish were stocked as fry that were just a couple days old. There were close to 15K wiper averaging 8-inches that were stocked in the reservoir in June. It's possible some of the fish in that stocking were six inches since it's a average length of stocked fish with some being smaller and others being larger. That said, those 8-inch fish likely would have grown a few inches already by now. The fish we think are likely palmetto strain were caught in our nets this week at around 4-5". So, if the small wipers were caught recently and they are around 6" or smaller, I'd say it's likely they are the palmetto fish that were stocked as I would expect the fish stocked in June to be closer to 10 inches or larger by now. If they were catching those fish earlier in the summer, then it's likely they were the fish that were stocked at an average size of 8".
Chris"
Thanks much Chris. That is some very interesting info and from what I could see, the placement of the nets are in a different location than they are in the Spring when you are just going after walleye, at least the 2 nets we saw on Tues. Great news on the walleye and the wiper numbers. Members are reporting higher numbers of small wipers being caught, around 6", would those be this years stocked wipers? What are the palmetto strain wipers?
"Yes, we place our nets in different locations for our fall trend netting. The walleye nets are set parallel to shore as shallow as we can without getting hung up on the dike - this allows us to focus only on fish coming into the shallows in the spring, which is geared towards spawning walleye. Our fall nets are spread along the north, west and south shores and are meant to survey catfish, wiper and walleye. We get some data on the perch, crappie and bass but not enough to make reliable inferences with as those species require different gears to catch. The palmetto strain are fish we spawned here in Utah from striper eggs and white bass milt. These fish were stocked as fry that were just a couple days old. There were close to 15K wiper averaging 8-inches that were stocked in the reservoir in June. It's possible some of the fish in that stocking were six inches since it's a average length of stocked fish with some being smaller and others being larger. That said, those 8-inch fish likely would have grown a few inches already by now. The fish we think are likely palmetto strain were caught in our nets this week at around 4-5". So, if the small wipers were caught recently and they are around 6" or smaller, I'd say it's likely they are the palmetto fish that were stocked as I would expect the fish stocked in June to be closer to 10 inches or larger by now. If they were catching those fish earlier in the summer, then it's likely they were the fish that were stocked at an average size of 8".
Chris"