02-14-2005, 12:26 PM
[cool][#0000ff]While staying inside with "seasonal miseries" over the weekend, I was doing some computer file cleanup and organizing. That included some shuffling of fishing photo files. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As I got to the Yuba Lake folder, I almost cried when I reviewed my pics from the "glory days" of years past. Here are a few to bring tears to the eyes of anyone who either also remembers those days, or who can't wait for them to return.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]By the way, lest I be sorely chastised for contributing to the demise of the fishery, by keeping so many fish, I will only say that the periodic "crashes" in fish populations are more the result of environmental problems than overharvest. Droughts and drawdowns impact the perch spawn, then the walleye and other predators finish off the few remaining perch and they all die from starvation.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]On most of the trips I made to Yuba in those days, there were seldom more than a dozen other fishermen on the whole lake. In fact, on the day of that picture with all the perch in front of the boat, we were the only ones on the lake. It was in early November. We kept ONLY 100 fish, out of probably 300 caught. Every fish in that pile is over 12 inches, with some over 14. And, we fished only about 3 hours one morning before the W blew us off the lake.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Most of the perch and walleyes were taken on my early model "perch urchins" and "bait bugs", all tipped with perch meat. And, for those who say that you can't get walleyes through the ice, we had days of releasing up to 50 in one morning. Once we found an area with structure, and stayed quiet, we got regular action.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Sniff, sniff, sob, sob.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As I got to the Yuba Lake folder, I almost cried when I reviewed my pics from the "glory days" of years past. Here are a few to bring tears to the eyes of anyone who either also remembers those days, or who can't wait for them to return.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]By the way, lest I be sorely chastised for contributing to the demise of the fishery, by keeping so many fish, I will only say that the periodic "crashes" in fish populations are more the result of environmental problems than overharvest. Droughts and drawdowns impact the perch spawn, then the walleye and other predators finish off the few remaining perch and they all die from starvation.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]On most of the trips I made to Yuba in those days, there were seldom more than a dozen other fishermen on the whole lake. In fact, on the day of that picture with all the perch in front of the boat, we were the only ones on the lake. It was in early November. We kept ONLY 100 fish, out of probably 300 caught. Every fish in that pile is over 12 inches, with some over 14. And, we fished only about 3 hours one morning before the W blew us off the lake.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Most of the perch and walleyes were taken on my early model "perch urchins" and "bait bugs", all tipped with perch meat. And, for those who say that you can't get walleyes through the ice, we had days of releasing up to 50 in one morning. Once we found an area with structure, and stayed quiet, we got regular action.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Sniff, sniff, sob, sob.[/#0000ff]
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