03-09-2014, 11:13 PM
I don't see the lake ever going to a "no bait" law. To much storied history in bait fishing there as well as bait is what most ice fishermen use.
I see the problems that are our present day Henry's fishery as a fish management problem. Like much of the West, there was to much emphasis on those worthless cutthroats. Now it appears the chickens or lake management problems have come home to roost in the form of a much stunted fishery. This has occurred in almost every big lake in the West. Think of the "mysis shrimp debacle" caused by biologists. It wasn't broken but the F&G in it's infinite wisdom tried to change it into something it wasn't meant to be. Luckily for Henry's it's not to late to put the toothpaste back in the tube.
The problem now will be one of money. Not the money it would cost to fix the fishery but the monies deprived to the F&G by creating an overstocked put and take lake. I can't imagine they won't see Henry's as their new found revenue source and ramp it up further with plants of tourist dollar fish.
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I see the problems that are our present day Henry's fishery as a fish management problem. Like much of the West, there was to much emphasis on those worthless cutthroats. Now it appears the chickens or lake management problems have come home to roost in the form of a much stunted fishery. This has occurred in almost every big lake in the West. Think of the "mysis shrimp debacle" caused by biologists. It wasn't broken but the F&G in it's infinite wisdom tried to change it into something it wasn't meant to be. Luckily for Henry's it's not to late to put the toothpaste back in the tube.
The problem now will be one of money. Not the money it would cost to fix the fishery but the monies deprived to the F&G by creating an overstocked put and take lake. I can't imagine they won't see Henry's as their new found revenue source and ramp it up further with plants of tourist dollar fish.
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