08-29-2025, 12:45 PM
Thanks for the comments, but, once again I just read this morning (8-29-25) that F&G is now putting Macky reservoir on their list of salvage operations. I'm tellin ya folks, if something doesn't change in how and what F&G is doing on waters managed or owned by these canal companies, we're gonna loose every bit of our fishing that we as sportsmen and women have worked so hard to get to. Macky has been one of the last quietly fishable Kokanee fisheries around. I think a lot of ppl fish there and dont say a whole bunch about it, but they have done well in the past from what I have heard. And now, its going to be down the drain for one of our last Koke fisheries in all of East Idaho.
When is it going to stop? Anyone have an answer? I dont F&G has one because they just keep allowing canal companies to dictate how, when, where the public can fish at all and they allow the canal companies to put already stressed financial restrictions on something that the public has no control over.
I've actually lost track over how many reservoirs this year are under salvation orders but I know that there are at least 8 or 9 that I can think of. And everyone of them are awesome fisheries with a huge history of managing for trophy type fish. But now, it's down to a fight between F&G, public, land owners and their livelihoods, and who gets to control who.
Just think of all lof the public money that literally is going down the tubes this year with the dry water year all the way around. Can this continue for the sportsmen and women of Idaho and a fight with canal companies to keep land and crop owners going with their harvests?
I dont know how much money F&G has put into planting fish on a yearly basis for eveyone of the reservoirs on salvation orders, but, I do know that with Kokes, the past couple of years made everyone scratch their heads as to what happened to that fishery statewide. And now, it's open season with them and in most cases where kokes are located, some of those fisheries were just starting a comeback and now, they are going away due to matters not under their command, but, at the beckon whim of these Canal companies Statewide.
It's becoming a no win situation for fish in this state and a no win situation for the public who use these fisheries and who put one heck of a lot of money into a program that just because water is in such demand that no one but the land owner really benefits. The public sure isnt winning this war and it's gonna be a long time before we do.
I'm not sure what the answer is, but if someone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them as well as I bet other folks would like to hear as well as the Idaho Fish and Game. They are caught in the middle on all of this, but, even though they have put thousands of tax dollars into trying to maintain a program for the public, they loose because of the demand for water for crops vs demand for public enjoyment.
Here's the link I saw on Macky the morning:
https://idfg.idaho.gov/article/salvage-o...-reservoir
When is it going to stop? Anyone have an answer? I dont F&G has one because they just keep allowing canal companies to dictate how, when, where the public can fish at all and they allow the canal companies to put already stressed financial restrictions on something that the public has no control over.
I've actually lost track over how many reservoirs this year are under salvation orders but I know that there are at least 8 or 9 that I can think of. And everyone of them are awesome fisheries with a huge history of managing for trophy type fish. But now, it's down to a fight between F&G, public, land owners and their livelihoods, and who gets to control who.
Just think of all lof the public money that literally is going down the tubes this year with the dry water year all the way around. Can this continue for the sportsmen and women of Idaho and a fight with canal companies to keep land and crop owners going with their harvests?
I dont know how much money F&G has put into planting fish on a yearly basis for eveyone of the reservoirs on salvation orders, but, I do know that with Kokes, the past couple of years made everyone scratch their heads as to what happened to that fishery statewide. And now, it's open season with them and in most cases where kokes are located, some of those fisheries were just starting a comeback and now, they are going away due to matters not under their command, but, at the beckon whim of these Canal companies Statewide.
It's becoming a no win situation for fish in this state and a no win situation for the public who use these fisheries and who put one heck of a lot of money into a program that just because water is in such demand that no one but the land owner really benefits. The public sure isnt winning this war and it's gonna be a long time before we do.
I'm not sure what the answer is, but if someone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them as well as I bet other folks would like to hear as well as the Idaho Fish and Game. They are caught in the middle on all of this, but, even though they have put thousands of tax dollars into trying to maintain a program for the public, they loose because of the demand for water for crops vs demand for public enjoyment.
Here's the link I saw on Macky the morning:
https://idfg.idaho.gov/article/salvage-o...-reservoir