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Had 19-man bass club tourney last weekend. Never caught so many largies in my life. Granted, most were 12"ers, but fatties & fighters. 13-17s also boated, tho the longer they got yhe fewer. Even had 2 guys catch twin 20 1/2s. A shame to think they're all gonna get rotenoned next year. Fish were slowly jigged out of weed pockets in shallows, but best & easiest technique was casting something black & blue over 7' of water where the tops of the submerged reed stalks were still 3' under. Water temp 57-61. Got blown off & rained off Sunday noon, 2 hrs short of quittin' time.
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Wait. WHAT? ROTENONED?
Whodahell decided that?
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Ok, you can't drop a bomb like that and not explain. What are they doing with Mantua?
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Few years back they did something to the water and the result was thousands of bluegill die-off. Intentional or not...haven't heard a word.
I suspect this is the same thing you're talking about.
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MAJOR OOPS ---- so tired from 3-dayer I mistakenly typed in Mantua instead of PELICAN. Yet another sign I'm losing it. I will ban myself from the forum for one month.
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I was out there Friday and had the same results.
Any day that you can catch around a thousand inches of bass can't be all bad.
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I saw all those bass boats out there as I was compelled to drive past for a work project. I was jealous! Bass fishin has been really good there for the smaller bass. Lots of bluegill too but they seem to be smaller too.
Yes Pelican will be rotenoned, but I think it will return rapidly to excellent status. The DWR will be doing some bass salvage days, putting bass in live cages or releasing them in nearby private waters where they can pull them back out and restock the lake soon afterwards. Get rid of the carp and improve the water quality and the bass and bluegill will grow quickly. Could be some whoppers in there in a few years.
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What I've heard is that there will not be any bass & bluegill salvaging.
But some increased limits starting this winter.
Would be nice if they could save a bunch.
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That's good to hear about the poisoning.
Has anybody heard about if they plan to put channel cats back in too?
Have caught some nice ones out of there over the years.
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How in the world do carp get in every lake? Are people panting them? Birds?
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What I heard was that they pulled water out of another canal to feed Pelican and the carp entered that way. It seems like the dwr said that they will be putting screens in to prevent this from happening in the future.
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Ok, I'm on the planning committee. Carp have been in Pelican for many years, but back in 2008 a dam repair upstream on Cottonwood Res washed many thousands of carp downstream into Pelican and a few other private reservoirs. This allowed the carp to hyper populate the system and ruin the fishery. At the same time, water use practices have also altered the water quality at Pelican. So with carp so over populated and poorer water quality DWR and the committee decided the best thing to do would be restart the whole deal. We discussed several options before rotenone but concluded rotenone was the only real practical solution to get rid of carp. Pelican and the private ponds affected will be poisoned. Fish screens will be placed above and below Pelican to prevent movement of invasive fish species. Some discussion was made about a bass/bluegill salvage day because they wanted to have an immediate and close source of fish to put back into the lake. I'll have to check my notes about the possibility of the increased limit deal. Within a few weeks after the rotenone treatment LM bass, bluegill and channel catfish will be reintroduce back into the lake. They will also be working to improve the water quality and sedimentation issues. BLM is also making improvements to the campground there.
I hope that answers all the questions above. I'll try to answer any others you might have.
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BTW, how big was the winning bag?
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Winning bag (by local, "ringer" Vernal guy) was 21+, including that 5+ on Sunday.
Sat he didn't do as well, getting only 7+. Had a stellar day Sun. 2nd had 17+, 3rd was 17. Avg wt was 6# per day. We fished from 6-4 on Sat and from 6-2 on Sun.
Fishing really got good in that pre-front around noon Sun, but that's when we came off the water.
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Cool, thanks.
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Ok, I checked the documents and you are correct they plan to increase the limits on bass and bluegill prior to the treatment. They also are planning a bass and bluegill collection project to hold these fish to stock back in to the lake after the treatment. Division equipment and anglers will be used for this part of the project.
Execution and timing of these plans are subject to change according to need or conditions.
So there you go.
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Thanks for all of the info.
Can't wait till it comes back.
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