02-12-2005, 08:38 PM
I SPENT MY PRESCHOOL YEARS IN BAKER & GREW UP IN ELY NEV. 50 OR SO YEARS AGO WE WOULD CATCH THOSE PERCH OUT OF PRUESS LAKE BY THE SACKS FULL. AT THE TIME WE THOUGHT THEY WERE CRAPPIE. THERE WERE A COUPLE OF SPRING FED PONDS IN NORTH SPRING VALLEY NEV. THAT HAD THEM ALSO.
I'M TOLD THAT THEY WERE BROUGHT FROM WALKER LAKE NEV. & PUT IN SPRING VALLEY SOMETIME IN THE LATE 30'S OR EARLY 40'S. SOMEBODY DID A "BUCKET BIOLOGY" TRANSPLANT TO PRUESS LAKE.
TWENTY-FIVE OR SO YEARS AGO I ASKED THE UTAH FISH & GAME ABOUT THEM & WAS TOLD THAT THEY HAD DONE A GILL NETTING AT PRUESS TO CHECK ON A LARGEMOUTH BASS STOCKING. THEY SAID SOME OF THE LARGEMOUTH HAD SACRAMENTO PERCH FRY IN THEIR STOMACHS. I BEAT FEET OUT THERE TO SEE IF I COULD CATCH ANY & THE TRIP WAS A BUST.
WE USED TO CATCH THEM IN MARCH OR APRIL AS I REMEMBER DOWN ON THE SOUTH END WHERE THE STREAM FROM BIG SPRING ENTERS THE LAKE. ALL WE HAD AT THAT TIME WERE COLORADO SPINNERS WITH A HUNK OF WORM & WE COULD CATCH ONE NEARLY EVERY CAST.
THERE HAVE BEEN SOME AWFUL DROUTH YEARS BETWEEN THEN & NOW SO I DON'T KNOW IF THERE WOULD BE ANY LEFT IN PRUESS. I DO KNOW THERE AREN'T ANY LEFT IN SPRING VALLEY.
I WOULDN'T MIND RUNNING BACK OUT THERE LATER THIS SPRING TO JUST CHECK IT OUT AGAIN. IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO GO ALONG, LET'S GET TOGETHER.
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I'M TOLD THAT THEY WERE BROUGHT FROM WALKER LAKE NEV. & PUT IN SPRING VALLEY SOMETIME IN THE LATE 30'S OR EARLY 40'S. SOMEBODY DID A "BUCKET BIOLOGY" TRANSPLANT TO PRUESS LAKE.
TWENTY-FIVE OR SO YEARS AGO I ASKED THE UTAH FISH & GAME ABOUT THEM & WAS TOLD THAT THEY HAD DONE A GILL NETTING AT PRUESS TO CHECK ON A LARGEMOUTH BASS STOCKING. THEY SAID SOME OF THE LARGEMOUTH HAD SACRAMENTO PERCH FRY IN THEIR STOMACHS. I BEAT FEET OUT THERE TO SEE IF I COULD CATCH ANY & THE TRIP WAS A BUST.
WE USED TO CATCH THEM IN MARCH OR APRIL AS I REMEMBER DOWN ON THE SOUTH END WHERE THE STREAM FROM BIG SPRING ENTERS THE LAKE. ALL WE HAD AT THAT TIME WERE COLORADO SPINNERS WITH A HUNK OF WORM & WE COULD CATCH ONE NEARLY EVERY CAST.
THERE HAVE BEEN SOME AWFUL DROUTH YEARS BETWEEN THEN & NOW SO I DON'T KNOW IF THERE WOULD BE ANY LEFT IN PRUESS. I DO KNOW THERE AREN'T ANY LEFT IN SPRING VALLEY.
I WOULDN'T MIND RUNNING BACK OUT THERE LATER THIS SPRING TO JUST CHECK IT OUT AGAIN. IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO GO ALONG, LET'S GET TOGETHER.
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