08-09-2004, 01:12 AM
I am thinking of ice fishing Turquoise Lake for Macks this year. How have you guys done there? Do you catch any bigger ones? I have heard this lake is mostly full of 15 - 20" jacks.
That doesn't surprise me about the CDOW bumbling like that on Dillion. Ticks me off that a lake like that now is mostly a fake trout show of small stockers. The kokanees were the forage base for the rainbows. To simply dump shrimp into the lake and not realize what it would do to the plankton base (kokanee's main forage).
Our DOW is ridiculous. They tried to introduce kokanee into Ruedi Reservoir, not even knowing that the most common fish in the lake were Lake Trout. Sherman Hebein, the senior biologist for the NW area of Colorado, didn't know this and then expressed disgust for not knowing it. "We waisted hundreds and thousands of dollars and several decades trying to introduce kokanee."
This shows how the DOW only looks at their "science" and doesn't listen to or seek approval from the angling public. They do things in a foolish, completely arbitrary way. They need to start doing their constitutional mandate to listen to the public, and also of actually listening to anglers rather than blowing us off as a bunch of uneducated nobodies.
Tyler
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That doesn't surprise me about the CDOW bumbling like that on Dillion. Ticks me off that a lake like that now is mostly a fake trout show of small stockers. The kokanees were the forage base for the rainbows. To simply dump shrimp into the lake and not realize what it would do to the plankton base (kokanee's main forage).
Our DOW is ridiculous. They tried to introduce kokanee into Ruedi Reservoir, not even knowing that the most common fish in the lake were Lake Trout. Sherman Hebein, the senior biologist for the NW area of Colorado, didn't know this and then expressed disgust for not knowing it. "We waisted hundreds and thousands of dollars and several decades trying to introduce kokanee."
This shows how the DOW only looks at their "science" and doesn't listen to or seek approval from the angling public. They do things in a foolish, completely arbitrary way. They need to start doing their constitutional mandate to listen to the public, and also of actually listening to anglers rather than blowing us off as a bunch of uneducated nobodies.
Tyler
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