Hyrum 12/18

[SkunkedAgain]

I hate to pee on the fire, but the last two years the division has only been planting like 5000 fish, so it's probably a result of what the division is doing... They put twice as many fish into Wellsville pond as they did into Hyrum.... Not very happy with their management practices at Hyrum... Kind of crazy how popular Hyrum is and they aren't doing anything to keep it going... I think they figured the perch would stay a main focus at Hyrum, but with low water perch always cycle up and down... We're in the down side of things and they should have seen that last winter and planted some trout to keep the large numbers of ice anglers happy this year, they didn't so I expect Hyrum to be on a downer this year... Newton is about fished out as well, not sure why they didn't try a little harder to do something at Hyrum... I mean they planted as many fish in Tony Grove as they did Hyrum and it has a very short season to fish it before the winter kills it out.... Maybe it's time to fish Idaho this year... Later J

I have to wonder Jeff if the fact that Hyrum has pretty much turned into a power squadron venue, and they far outnumber the fishing users.  That and the very small size of the venue itself.  I can't think of any Wasatch Front State Park venue that is smaller than Hyrum.  It's been my experience over the last dozen or so years that even during the week, I can only peacefully boat fish Hyrum until about 10:30 to 11:00 before the power squadron makes it difficult to control the boat due to wakes pushing the boat from all sides.  Weekends it's even worse.  You have my deepest sympathies.

I think you're correct for the summer planting and I can see that, but Hyrum is fished so heavy in the winter, I can't believe they don't manage to the winter crowds... You mentioned that Hyrum is small, but have you seen Wellsville pond?  To think they put double the number of fish in there that they do in Hyrum blows my mind, plus 5000 fish for a lake as big as it is verses the hundreds of thousands of fish they put into Strawberry and the gorge, I think they could spare a few more from those heavy hitters and put 10-15K into Hyrum... Especially where Hyrum won't go dry, when it's at the bottom of the release allotment they still have over 30 FOW in most of the west end... I'm going to have to get off my lazy kiester and find out when their meeting are to go express my thoughts over their Hyrum management or lack of... Later J