01-17-2014, 08:51 PM
i want to point out one other thing on the food base thing here too... carp, perch and Walleye (and yes the pike are eating Walleye too) are not the only things in the lake for pike to eat... the crawdads. sucker, redside shiners, fathead minnows, chub, dace, scolpin, and even guppys from a warm spring not far from the lake all are in there as well.. a long with ducks, mice, frogs, birds and most anything that will fit in the mouth of pike will be munched on..
it's going to be interesting to see what 50,000 perch a year for 3 years will do for the lake.. thats the number they have been throwing around as a target number for next year. and if it works good they hope to do it again the following 2 years after.. that might help fish lake out (by removing a bunch of stunted perch) and yuba out as well by providing a new perch base.. let's hope it works..
i still think it would help Yuba out to plant perch back in the sandpitch drainage as well to keep some perch moving down stream as well.. even if every 4 or 5 years they need to restock do to low water..
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it's going to be interesting to see what 50,000 perch a year for 3 years will do for the lake.. thats the number they have been throwing around as a target number for next year. and if it works good they hope to do it again the following 2 years after.. that might help fish lake out (by removing a bunch of stunted perch) and yuba out as well by providing a new perch base.. let's hope it works..
i still think it would help Yuba out to plant perch back in the sandpitch drainage as well to keep some perch moving down stream as well.. even if every 4 or 5 years they need to restock do to low water..
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