10-26-2019, 02:00 PM
[quote Browntrout]I thing for sure - when the river below Scofield was struggling and should have been catch and release only - what did the Price DWR office do? Kept the 4 fish limit.
Then a few years later - no fish 2 miles down from Scofield. Once a fantastic river fishery totally mis-managed and in the toilet.[/quote]
They might as well have removed the limit on number of trout you could keep the outcome would have been the same. No sense of limiting fish when drought, extremely low water releases and water temps were going to kill most trout except a few of the smallest ones.
Price River like a handful of the small streams in the general area is capable of holding over 1000 trout per mile when water conditions remain optimum for a few years in a row. Per CFS of water these are more productive streams than the Green but are far more vulnerable to drought. Thinning the trout under good conditions removes the bottleneck where many grow to 15-16 inches in 2 years but relatively few reach 18-20 in the next year or 2. When all fish over 6 inches are likely to die, it doesn't matter what DWR does other than buy water rights for a minimum instream flow.
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Then a few years later - no fish 2 miles down from Scofield. Once a fantastic river fishery totally mis-managed and in the toilet.[/quote]
They might as well have removed the limit on number of trout you could keep the outcome would have been the same. No sense of limiting fish when drought, extremely low water releases and water temps were going to kill most trout except a few of the smallest ones.
Price River like a handful of the small streams in the general area is capable of holding over 1000 trout per mile when water conditions remain optimum for a few years in a row. Per CFS of water these are more productive streams than the Green but are far more vulnerable to drought. Thinning the trout under good conditions removes the bottleneck where many grow to 15-16 inches in 2 years but relatively few reach 18-20 in the next year or 2. When all fish over 6 inches are likely to die, it doesn't matter what DWR does other than buy water rights for a minimum instream flow.
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