12-28-2004, 04:07 PM
Interesting.
I don't think Mill Meadow needs poisoning yet, but something needs to be done to put the Perch in check there. They have hurt many good trout fisheries (see Fish Lake!). The good thing is that Mill Meadow isn't all that dependant on naturally spawned trout. Much of it is planted as the reservoir is drained quite low every year by the end of the summer due to irrigation.
I don't know much about the Johnson Valley thing. All I know is that the last time I tried fishing there it was a perch fest with tons of undersized perch. You could catch on every cast and often catch 2 per cast if you had 2 hooks on. It seems the muskies weren't able to make it there, either.
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I don't think Mill Meadow needs poisoning yet, but something needs to be done to put the Perch in check there. They have hurt many good trout fisheries (see Fish Lake!). The good thing is that Mill Meadow isn't all that dependant on naturally spawned trout. Much of it is planted as the reservoir is drained quite low every year by the end of the summer due to irrigation.
I don't know much about the Johnson Valley thing. All I know is that the last time I tried fishing there it was a perch fest with tons of undersized perch. You could catch on every cast and often catch 2 per cast if you had 2 hooks on. It seems the muskies weren't able to make it there, either.
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