11-25-2005, 07:26 AM
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I forgot about the F&G poisoning Montepilier Res for the walleye. I would love to have more places to fish for walleye but agree with you 100% that they don't belong in Montepilier Res and one should never plant fish illegally.
Hopefully the F&G killed all of the walleye but I wouldn't count on it. I would guess that the perch will be back in full force within 5 years even if the no bucket biologist plants more perch. If you look at the history of poisoning lakes with rotenone, 100% success isn't common. There are several examples of lakes in Eastern Idaho the F&G have poisoned without success. Island Park Res has been poisoned multiple times but has been unsuccessful which isn't a surprise because it has to many tributaries and springs. Roberts gravel pond was unsuccessfully poisoned for bullheads and perch. Both of those species started showing up regularly a couple years after it was poisoned.
The biggest poisoning failure is Golden Lake in Hairman State Park. It is a small lake and it and it's tributaries were poisoned several times but the rainbows keep showing up a year or so after it is poisoned. Golden Lake isn't open to fishing and public access is limited to a 1/2? mile hike so I don't think it would be a likely target for a bucket biologist.
With that said I hope the F&G was very agresive in their poisoning efforts at Montpilier Res and all of the Walleye were killed.
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Thanks for the info. If your not already a registerd member or fogot your username/password I hope you take a few minutes to register a user name and come back often.
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[/url][size 1] [/size] I forgot about the F&G poisoning Montepilier Res for the walleye. I would love to have more places to fish for walleye but agree with you 100% that they don't belong in Montepilier Res and one should never plant fish illegally.
Hopefully the F&G killed all of the walleye but I wouldn't count on it. I would guess that the perch will be back in full force within 5 years even if the no bucket biologist plants more perch. If you look at the history of poisoning lakes with rotenone, 100% success isn't common. There are several examples of lakes in Eastern Idaho the F&G have poisoned without success. Island Park Res has been poisoned multiple times but has been unsuccessful which isn't a surprise because it has to many tributaries and springs. Roberts gravel pond was unsuccessfully poisoned for bullheads and perch. Both of those species started showing up regularly a couple years after it was poisoned.
The biggest poisoning failure is Golden Lake in Hairman State Park. It is a small lake and it and it's tributaries were poisoned several times but the rainbows keep showing up a year or so after it is poisoned. Golden Lake isn't open to fishing and public access is limited to a 1/2? mile hike so I don't think it would be a likely target for a bucket biologist.
With that said I hope the F&G was very agresive in their poisoning efforts at Montpilier Res and all of the Walleye were killed.
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