[:/] Drove up to Pineview Friday. My good friend, Craig, has worlds best boat, fish rods, equipment, fish finder, etc. Arrived at 7 a.m. Little rain, beautiful day. Tiger muskies, for sure. None. Bass for sure. None. Trout. None. Yellow Perch. None. Crappie, None. Have learned—sorry about the truth—that fish of any kind, with the exception of carp—not longer exist in Pineview. Lake is for skiiers only. Soon, we are heading to the Berry for reality checks. In the mean time, the rest of you have a wonderful day.
I fished the view friday as well, was in the tube, started at 7:45 and was blown off around noon, managed to catch a couple sticks neither of which fought very hard once dislodged from the bottom. My thoughts are it is still too cold to get into some good action there, hopefully with the weather we are suppose to get later in the week it will pick up a little but i’m not too optimistic.
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**We are going to have to wait until the runoff ends and the lake clears and stabilizes. Unfortunately, I think it will be a new lake. There are still plenty of fish left in the lake but the balances have been tilted. Lots of fish sucked out during the drawdown process and still more will disappear downstream when Pineview spills…and it will. **
I have heard from several reliable sources that there are hordes of dead fish…of all species…littering the banks of the river downstream and going out into Salt Lake. The gulls clean up most of the dead perchlets and crappiettes but there have also been some tiger muskies and smallmouth sighted.
Longterm this will probably be good for the lake. Give it a chance to rebuild…with lots of new nutrients in the lake. Short term…the fishing is not likely to be as good as in the past couple of years.
I have been wondering what all the flooding and such would do to the fish population in there, figured some of the trout from causey would get washed in there and was thinking allot of the smaller perch and such would get washed down stream. Hopefully this will help get some of the perch and crappie that will be left into a larger class than they have been. I am guessing that it won’t pick up consistently until late june if the weather will cooperate.
By this time last year (according to my log book) perch and blue gill were eager to take whatever and the smaller bass were getting somewhat aggressive as well.
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Thank you all for update. Should have known better about loss, other problems. Should have gone to Mantua insteal. Caught so many smallies last year at Pineview , hoped for better first time out this spring. Friday, the fish finder found very few fish at all. Will listen to hear if any improvments.
Pineview is a fairly good-sized lake and there is plenty of room for a lot of fish. However, when conditions get wierd the natural tendency of a lot of fish is to go deep and the deepest area is in front of the dam. Fish also respond to current and the outflow from the water releases doubtless pulled a few fish towards the flush hole. Thus, unknown numbers of fish…of all species…have been forever sucked out of the lake.
We can remain optimistic and hope that plenty of fish stayed up in the other arms of the lake through the fluctuations in water levels and the muddy floods. No way to really know how much the fish populations have been or will be affected until it all settles down and they are able to get back into their normal patterns…in a full and clearing lake.
The downside is there could be significant fish losses. The upside is that the lake will be full of new water and nutrients and the survivors will have an opportunity to grow larger faster…and to have successful spawns. It could be like a whole new lake and most lakes have a big boom cycle within the first few years of their birth…or rebirth.
Too bad about the timing. We could stand to flush a few of the power squadron down the river too.
I would presume the “water level” management goes on every spring, but this year is especially heavy. Do they typically “flush” the fish out at runoff? Or is this especially rare?
Is it happening to other reservoirs?
Maybe I should get a net and stand below the spillway!!!
Hope the cleansing does some long term good. Seemed like PV was on a down-cycle for panfish size, but was due for a cyclical upturn.
Sure wish hey could flush some of the powersquad out! Saw my first skiers Saturday - happy happy joy joy!
Most years…on most reservoirs…there is controlled release throughout the year to meet the needs of the downstream water users. However, when there is an above normal or below normal snowpack the late winter and early spring releases are adjusted accordingly. Ideally, the reservoirs fill just as the last drops of runoff trickle in.
It is rare that our reservoirs have to dump such large quantities of water in anticipation of future heavy runoffs. It is also rare that reservoirs fill to spilling. It has happened a few times with Pineview and whenever it does there are perch, crappies, bass and even tigers in the river below until they are caught out, starve out or die from the shock of the “download”.
There have been massive releases already but it is projected that at some point Pineview will also spill this year before it is all over. We gotta lotta watta left to come down off the mountains.
Wouldn’t recommend the salvation netting job. If you didn’t get washed away yourself you could get busted for illegally harvesting any species besides carp.
If you did get some power squadron flushouts there is no limit on those…as many as you can fillet. I’ll back you up in court on that one. Might not help but it will be immoral support.
I agree that there are no fish in Pineview.
Fish some place else.
Don’t waste your time there.
That will make it a lot nicer for me![;)]
Pineview will be just fine when it stabilizes and the weather warms up.
Yes there were fish lost this spring but there are still a lot of fish in there.
Now if we could only get Pineview to go to a wakeless boat speed!