03-21-2017, 10:54 PM
"What it does have to do with is control. How do you control a population of pike vs. perch vs. walleye?"
[#0000FF]To even think that Yuba is "controllable" is merely a dream. Every time DWR has made an effort to add fish...or manage what was already in there...Mother Nature has come along and crashed the party anyway. As I have said A LOT...you can't manage the unmanageable.
But when there are good numbers of a desirable species (not chubs), leave it alone.
I have fished Yuba since the 1970s and have laughed through the good times and cried through the bad. Seems to be about a 10 year thing. But now that there is likely to be more water and more fish NATURALLY, why kill it off and plant hatchery pets?
Yuba is what it is. Be glad when it produces fish and just wait it out through the cycles. Even if DWR succeeds in building a population of other species they will not fare any better than what is in there already.
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[#0000FF]To even think that Yuba is "controllable" is merely a dream. Every time DWR has made an effort to add fish...or manage what was already in there...Mother Nature has come along and crashed the party anyway. As I have said A LOT...you can't manage the unmanageable.
But when there are good numbers of a desirable species (not chubs), leave it alone.
I have fished Yuba since the 1970s and have laughed through the good times and cried through the bad. Seems to be about a 10 year thing. But now that there is likely to be more water and more fish NATURALLY, why kill it off and plant hatchery pets?
Yuba is what it is. Be glad when it produces fish and just wait it out through the cycles. Even if DWR succeeds in building a population of other species they will not fare any better than what is in there already.
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