05-01-2003, 02:20 PM
Tightline,
I've caught 15 and 16 inch chubs out of Strawberry before the rotenone treatment. If that's still a forage fish, I wanna see what trout we have around here that are doin' the foraging.
At my favorite fishing hole (Minersville) the chubs are thick enough to walk on their backs and not get your feet wet some years. The smallmouths eat the crawdads, and the trout eat the chubs. But even with the tight regulations down there, and the abundance of bigger trout, the chubs are still a problem. And they always will be. For one reason. They are too prolific! If they would eat their own they'd at least leave SOME plankton for the small trout.
It ain't a perfect world, and probably never will be. But until somebody can figure out a birth control device for chubs I say we keep them out of every body of water that they're not already in.
My two cents worth.
Fishrmn
I've caught 15 and 16 inch chubs out of Strawberry before the rotenone treatment. If that's still a forage fish, I wanna see what trout we have around here that are doin' the foraging.
At my favorite fishing hole (Minersville) the chubs are thick enough to walk on their backs and not get your feet wet some years. The smallmouths eat the crawdads, and the trout eat the chubs. But even with the tight regulations down there, and the abundance of bigger trout, the chubs are still a problem. And they always will be. For one reason. They are too prolific! If they would eat their own they'd at least leave SOME plankton for the small trout.
It ain't a perfect world, and probably never will be. But until somebody can figure out a birth control device for chubs I say we keep them out of every body of water that they're not already in.
My two cents worth.
Fishrmn