04-18-2011, 04:56 PM
I don't know what you're reading but what I'm reading from a lot of posts says blatantly that there are too many N. Pike and Walleye in Yuba. I couldn't disagree more.
The Provo river I have watched people catch fish abundantly, I understand selective harvest and am not against that at all. If there were a bunch of N. Pike and Walleye's in Yuba, I can assure you I would be eating them as they are fantastic eating.
I never said keeping a few fish has caused any lake to be fished out but when you have full on tournaments getting skunked it's probably not time to keep them. Nobody can argue with the success catch and release has had all over the Country. I think the walleye and N. Pike are being villanised a little too much here. Lets point the finger where it probably belongs and that is at the carp. Since the carp are about all the N. Pike are eating right now, I hope they do explode and chow down on some more. There was abundant perch and abundant Walleye and N. Pike in that reservoir not that many years ago. The big difference I see now is the boils of carp everywhere sucking down eggs and being IMO the primary reason the reservoir will struggle for a long time.
Ultimately it's pretty easy to see both sides of our topic, you want less N. Pike and Walleye in the reservoir now, I want more.
I would dare say we agree that we would love to have far less carp in there.
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The Provo river I have watched people catch fish abundantly, I understand selective harvest and am not against that at all. If there were a bunch of N. Pike and Walleye's in Yuba, I can assure you I would be eating them as they are fantastic eating.
I never said keeping a few fish has caused any lake to be fished out but when you have full on tournaments getting skunked it's probably not time to keep them. Nobody can argue with the success catch and release has had all over the Country. I think the walleye and N. Pike are being villanised a little too much here. Lets point the finger where it probably belongs and that is at the carp. Since the carp are about all the N. Pike are eating right now, I hope they do explode and chow down on some more. There was abundant perch and abundant Walleye and N. Pike in that reservoir not that many years ago. The big difference I see now is the boils of carp everywhere sucking down eggs and being IMO the primary reason the reservoir will struggle for a long time.
Ultimately it's pretty easy to see both sides of our topic, you want less N. Pike and Walleye in the reservoir now, I want more.
I would dare say we agree that we would love to have far less carp in there.
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