01-31-2014, 04:00 PM
Ruining Yuba?
i have been fishing Pike on yuba for about 30 years now.. most we caught back in the old days was trolling for walleye but we would catch 3 or 4 a year.. well the ones that did not cut our lines as they hit.. we did not run cable leader then.. this last summer me and my boys hit so many pike at yube it was unreal.. one was 44 inch and 24 lbs fun fishing for sure... but being a pike fishermen for as long as i have been i'll tell you i have seen first hand what to many pike can do to a lake.. just take a look at redmond res.. in the 80's it was not uncommon to catch 4 to 8 lbs pike and some in the teen's. in the 90's there were more pike but in the 2 to 4 lbs range.. in the 2000's lot's more pike but now anything over 24 to 28 inches was a good fish.. go down there today and see if you can find a fish over 24 inches!! and there is a ton of carp in the lake.. i have not seen or heard of a pike coming out of redmonds over 30 inches in a long time.. the same thing will happen to yuba! i will not mater how many pike are pulled out of there now or later it will happen! fishermen have very little impact on fish in that big of a lake!!
i think it's funny that every one thinks it it's like a plant and take trout lake!! it's not it a self sustaining pike perch and walleye lake. and the fish will do just that self sustain. it only took like 8 years for the pike to do what they have done in yuba.. lol it will take very little for them to keep doing it for years to come!!
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i have been fishing Pike on yuba for about 30 years now.. most we caught back in the old days was trolling for walleye but we would catch 3 or 4 a year.. well the ones that did not cut our lines as they hit.. we did not run cable leader then.. this last summer me and my boys hit so many pike at yube it was unreal.. one was 44 inch and 24 lbs fun fishing for sure... but being a pike fishermen for as long as i have been i'll tell you i have seen first hand what to many pike can do to a lake.. just take a look at redmond res.. in the 80's it was not uncommon to catch 4 to 8 lbs pike and some in the teen's. in the 90's there were more pike but in the 2 to 4 lbs range.. in the 2000's lot's more pike but now anything over 24 to 28 inches was a good fish.. go down there today and see if you can find a fish over 24 inches!! and there is a ton of carp in the lake.. i have not seen or heard of a pike coming out of redmonds over 30 inches in a long time.. the same thing will happen to yuba! i will not mater how many pike are pulled out of there now or later it will happen! fishermen have very little impact on fish in that big of a lake!!
i think it's funny that every one thinks it it's like a plant and take trout lake!! it's not it a self sustaining pike perch and walleye lake. and the fish will do just that self sustain. it only took like 8 years for the pike to do what they have done in yuba.. lol it will take very little for them to keep doing it for years to come!!
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