02-06-2021, 08:24 PM
Big sky, I don’t know if you were back in Utah then, but a few years ago there was a big panic over your favorite back yard fishing hole because of the lack of water. The lake sat at the 2500 AF minimum pool thru the hottest part of the summer and early fall.
There was a lot of pressure on the DWR to lift all the regulations and limits like they have done in the past so all the fish don’t go to waste. The DWR held their ground and most were pretty happy how the fish came out the other end of that situation. The worst die offs were Fly Fishermen killing hundreds if not thousands of stressed fish in that cove down by the dam.
Their is some consensus that because of the strain of rainbows and the fact that chubs no longer play into the biology of the lake,, that the fish now have a much better chance of surviving a bad year than they have in the past.
So on that specific water perhaps a closing when the water level reaches the minimum pool, correlated with certain water temperature my be something that should be looked at. DWR has hit it out of the park with their recent management their, so they my be open to something like that.
As far as the pressure I personally don’t think it is going to be the ruination of the fishery, and the DWR love to see it because they see it as validation of all their hard work, and all of “our” funding.
There was a lot of pressure on the DWR to lift all the regulations and limits like they have done in the past so all the fish don’t go to waste. The DWR held their ground and most were pretty happy how the fish came out the other end of that situation. The worst die offs were Fly Fishermen killing hundreds if not thousands of stressed fish in that cove down by the dam.
Their is some consensus that because of the strain of rainbows and the fact that chubs no longer play into the biology of the lake,, that the fish now have a much better chance of surviving a bad year than they have in the past.
So on that specific water perhaps a closing when the water level reaches the minimum pool, correlated with certain water temperature my be something that should be looked at. DWR has hit it out of the park with their recent management their, so they my be open to something like that.
As far as the pressure I personally don’t think it is going to be the ruination of the fishery, and the DWR love to see it because they see it as validation of all their hard work, and all of “our” funding.