05-23-2023, 04:10 PM
(05-23-2023, 12:12 PM)TubeDude Wrote: The positive side of that is that the chubs are mostly bigguns...not the swarms of small chubs we used to see there. The predators are doing their jobs. Chubs live up to 20 years...and the large ones will keep spawning each spring. But as long as there are enough predators to eat up all the small ones each year the big ones will gradually die out and the lake will be relatively chub free. That is what happened at both Starvation and Jordanelle. And some of the big old "chubosaurs" really got gross before they finally died out. Here are a couple from Starvation back in about 2007.I agree with your assessment about not catching any small ones but for the last three years large chubs were only a small portion of the catch.
Something seemed to change, and someone noticed that the DWR did not stock as many wipers in 2020 so that may have contributed to the increase in chubs.