04-11-2014, 10:42 AM
[quote Duck-Slayer]
you mean the 500 people everyday out there the last 2 years ice fishing keeping 5 gallon pale's full of perch isn't hurting the populations? of bigger fish? please..... yea perch have a ton of little babies, how many of those last 5-6 years too get big and fat for eating? not many...... I think the same is gonna happen on Cascade, need the big fish too help keep the little fish down and not get into the way it was 20 years ago where nothing got hardly bigger than 12", same applies too CJ, i'm no biologist but I believe we need too take a look at how ND handles there medium too large reservoirs that consistently produce year after year....
Matt[/quote]
The majority of the years CJ does not freeze. When it does, it freezes for what, two weeks max?
I have been fishing my custom hair jigs below the dam pretty consistently for the past month. At least 2-3 times a week. Practically every cast I am seeing dozens of 5" - 7" perch mobbing my jig on the way in. This is an area where there was NO ice fishing and most people are not targeting perch.
Last summer we were getting bites from huge schools of 4" perch out in front of Cottonwood on every cast. Probably fish from the same year class as the ones I've been seeing last month.
They're flipping everywhere.
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you mean the 500 people everyday out there the last 2 years ice fishing keeping 5 gallon pale's full of perch isn't hurting the populations? of bigger fish? please..... yea perch have a ton of little babies, how many of those last 5-6 years too get big and fat for eating? not many...... I think the same is gonna happen on Cascade, need the big fish too help keep the little fish down and not get into the way it was 20 years ago where nothing got hardly bigger than 12", same applies too CJ, i'm no biologist but I believe we need too take a look at how ND handles there medium too large reservoirs that consistently produce year after year....
Matt[/quote]
The majority of the years CJ does not freeze. When it does, it freezes for what, two weeks max?
I have been fishing my custom hair jigs below the dam pretty consistently for the past month. At least 2-3 times a week. Practically every cast I am seeing dozens of 5" - 7" perch mobbing my jig on the way in. This is an area where there was NO ice fishing and most people are not targeting perch.
Last summer we were getting bites from huge schools of 4" perch out in front of Cottonwood on every cast. Probably fish from the same year class as the ones I've been seeing last month.
They're flipping everywhere.
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