03-25-2004, 11:43 PM
I hate to bring this back to the top but I just got back on line and was reading through it and have one for PBH.
I am not really good with the exact dates but I believe it was 2 years ago Piute Res. was an incredible Smallmouth fishery. This was the spring of the year they poisoned it. When you can go out and in a morning catch a dozen big smallmouths between 2 an 5 lbs and be the only one on the lake only then to have the lake poisoned later that fall. I am not oblivious to the fact that there were millions of rough fish there but those millions of rough fish fed some big Smallmouth bass. A friend of mine has one that is nearly 6 lbs mounted on his wall. I believe they ruined a reservior that had tons of potential for a trophy smallmouth bass fishery to return Piute to a trout fishery. Yes in the past I loved to catch those big bows out of there but I enjoyed even more catching big smallmouths, and I could go to Otter Creek to catch big bows or any one of the other lakes in the area.
I am also aware of what has happened since and the draining of the reservoir that would have in course eliminated the smallmouth in there but the DWR did it first. A rumor I heard was that the DWR wanted to poison it that fall so the water association allowed the water users more water so that when they poisoned it, it would require less poison or none at all.
Not trying to stir things up just curious to see your take on this one. It is good to see such involved sportsmen.
Mjigs
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I am not really good with the exact dates but I believe it was 2 years ago Piute Res. was an incredible Smallmouth fishery. This was the spring of the year they poisoned it. When you can go out and in a morning catch a dozen big smallmouths between 2 an 5 lbs and be the only one on the lake only then to have the lake poisoned later that fall. I am not oblivious to the fact that there were millions of rough fish there but those millions of rough fish fed some big Smallmouth bass. A friend of mine has one that is nearly 6 lbs mounted on his wall. I believe they ruined a reservior that had tons of potential for a trophy smallmouth bass fishery to return Piute to a trout fishery. Yes in the past I loved to catch those big bows out of there but I enjoyed even more catching big smallmouths, and I could go to Otter Creek to catch big bows or any one of the other lakes in the area.
I am also aware of what has happened since and the draining of the reservoir that would have in course eliminated the smallmouth in there but the DWR did it first. A rumor I heard was that the DWR wanted to poison it that fall so the water association allowed the water users more water so that when they poisoned it, it would require less poison or none at all.
Not trying to stir things up just curious to see your take on this one. It is good to see such involved sportsmen.
Mjigs
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