12-11-2016, 08:52 PM
Nice try but that's not quite how it's working. Creel reports mean nothing at Henry's since most of the people don't keep fish there anyways. Henry's was supposed to be a trophy fishery not a family put and take lake.
Ice fisherman are severely impacting the fishery considering most of these people would be lucky to catch a bigger fish on late season open water. On the hard deck they are catching big numbers of these sized fish.
The bigger fish were hammered once ice fishing started and now the quality of fish or trophy fish at Henry's is horrible to very poor at best.
Henry's was on a major decline since around 2006 and now
The trophy fish have all but disappeared in the past several years. When was the last time you saw several fish in the teens coming out of Henry's?
Believe what you want. I'll believe what I see when I'm on the water.
[quote MMDon]Sorry Ex but the numbers just don't back up your concerns. When factoring in the numbers of fish vs. the creel counts the ice fishermen aren't even impacting the total numbers of fish. If anything, the lake was overpopulated with fish for a number of years and the ice fishermen might, in some small way, actually help the quality of fishing at Henry's. We know from past history the best thing that can happen to improve Henry's is to have a severe die off due to drought. The numbers of giant fish improve markedly the years after such a reduction in overall fish numbers and a burst in forage fish such as chubs due to low oxygenated waters.[/quote]
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Ice fisherman are severely impacting the fishery considering most of these people would be lucky to catch a bigger fish on late season open water. On the hard deck they are catching big numbers of these sized fish.
The bigger fish were hammered once ice fishing started and now the quality of fish or trophy fish at Henry's is horrible to very poor at best.
Henry's was on a major decline since around 2006 and now
The trophy fish have all but disappeared in the past several years. When was the last time you saw several fish in the teens coming out of Henry's?
Believe what you want. I'll believe what I see when I'm on the water.
[quote MMDon]Sorry Ex but the numbers just don't back up your concerns. When factoring in the numbers of fish vs. the creel counts the ice fishermen aren't even impacting the total numbers of fish. If anything, the lake was overpopulated with fish for a number of years and the ice fishermen might, in some small way, actually help the quality of fishing at Henry's. We know from past history the best thing that can happen to improve Henry's is to have a severe die off due to drought. The numbers of giant fish improve markedly the years after such a reduction in overall fish numbers and a burst in forage fish such as chubs due to low oxygenated waters.[/quote]
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