04-13-2003, 02:32 AM
I have found that every time I have similar issues with managment practices I am underinformed. Even worse, I tend to discover that my ideas, inspired by my desires rather than my research and studies, are not in the best interest of the fishery. I have been in your shoes too many times. I went a different route though. If you contact the individuals who are in charge of the area you will find out they are amazingly in tune with the needs, limitaions, capablilities, and current conditions of the states fisheries. I kid you not, its amazing. I have been absolutley floored each time. I still have my desires and wishes, but I know now that our fisheries are in the hands of experts. People who know and do everything within thier limitaions to give us just what you are talking about.
I do know that its not much different in southern utah from northern. We all wish we had quail lake up here. We all wish that there were stripers from powell locally. We all wish our walleye fisheries had starvations numbers and fort pecks size. I personally dont care for white bass so its no big deal that its a three hour drive for me. I know that they tried to stock wipers in southern utah but they didnt take. If they didnt have the forage problem in powell, I would prefer them big huge fat stripers to willards two pound wipers an day.
And like I said, its not that much different here in northen utah, I wish we had less trout lakes and more walleye lakes, and I really wish we had a jordanelle that wasnt two hours away for small mouth. But my hat goes off to the guys at the fish and game.
One thing I do have to say is what a great state we have to fish in. I was up in oregon on the idaho border yesterday picking up my new boat. I was talking to the guys up there in the boat shop. It was amazing how little they had in the area. Smallmouth fishing on the river was the only thing worth while unless you drove a few hours. They didnt fish for many different species because there wasnt much around, and what there was didnt sound to be very productive. It made me feel glad to live where I do and have the opportunity that I do to fish here.
Although I am dying to try to get some of those big, big eyes just over the utah border in the middle of no where, at salmon creek res. Excellent chances at eyes over thirteen pounds! See, why cant that be willard bay? Shoot, why cant that be the river in the back yard!
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I do know that its not much different in southern utah from northern. We all wish we had quail lake up here. We all wish that there were stripers from powell locally. We all wish our walleye fisheries had starvations numbers and fort pecks size. I personally dont care for white bass so its no big deal that its a three hour drive for me. I know that they tried to stock wipers in southern utah but they didnt take. If they didnt have the forage problem in powell, I would prefer them big huge fat stripers to willards two pound wipers an day.
And like I said, its not that much different here in northen utah, I wish we had less trout lakes and more walleye lakes, and I really wish we had a jordanelle that wasnt two hours away for small mouth. But my hat goes off to the guys at the fish and game.
One thing I do have to say is what a great state we have to fish in. I was up in oregon on the idaho border yesterday picking up my new boat. I was talking to the guys up there in the boat shop. It was amazing how little they had in the area. Smallmouth fishing on the river was the only thing worth while unless you drove a few hours. They didnt fish for many different species because there wasnt much around, and what there was didnt sound to be very productive. It made me feel glad to live where I do and have the opportunity that I do to fish here.
Although I am dying to try to get some of those big, big eyes just over the utah border in the middle of no where, at salmon creek res. Excellent chances at eyes over thirteen pounds! See, why cant that be willard bay? Shoot, why cant that be the river in the back yard!
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