06-08-2006, 05:33 PM
Good point on everyone taking home limits. Sounds like you guys have done well up there the past few weeks????? I hope so.....cause yours would be one of the very few encouraging report from that lake since before winter. Did you see any of the tiger trout being caught????
Just a few general questions for whoever cares to respond.....and hopefully this isn't hijacking this thread....... It seems like the lake is in trouble as far as not being well balanced. It has gone from low water and lots of fish (which means high harvest rates) to high water and not too many fish (or are the fish just well dispersed throughout the lake?) It seems like the low fish counts presents a perfect opportunity for the chubs which are starting to show up in numbers to really get a good hold on the lake. That is why they planted the tiger trout. It would be nice if everyone voluntarily released all tigers and cutts at Scofield so that they could do their part on keeping the chubs in check. However when people are not catching very many fish to take home (hopefully rainbows) cause the fishing is slow.....they are more apt to keep everything they catch (ie cutts, rainbows, and tiger trout). This seems counter productive!!! And talking about counter productive why are they considering raising the limit at scofield to 8 fish????????? It seems like the fish numbers are already depleated enough and isn't 4 fish enough for a meal? If the DWR and the fishermen who use Scofield are not very careful the chubs will claim another victory in Utah and then we have to kill the lake off and start all over. I would like to see the lake kept as a put and take type lake for people to be able to catch a limit of bows to take home and eat (which at this time seems like the stocking needs a boost) but their needs to be a way to protect the cutts and tigers to keep the chub numbers down.......
I hate to see this great fishery falling apart!
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Just a few general questions for whoever cares to respond.....and hopefully this isn't hijacking this thread....... It seems like the lake is in trouble as far as not being well balanced. It has gone from low water and lots of fish (which means high harvest rates) to high water and not too many fish (or are the fish just well dispersed throughout the lake?) It seems like the low fish counts presents a perfect opportunity for the chubs which are starting to show up in numbers to really get a good hold on the lake. That is why they planted the tiger trout. It would be nice if everyone voluntarily released all tigers and cutts at Scofield so that they could do their part on keeping the chubs in check. However when people are not catching very many fish to take home (hopefully rainbows) cause the fishing is slow.....they are more apt to keep everything they catch (ie cutts, rainbows, and tiger trout). This seems counter productive!!! And talking about counter productive why are they considering raising the limit at scofield to 8 fish????????? It seems like the fish numbers are already depleated enough and isn't 4 fish enough for a meal? If the DWR and the fishermen who use Scofield are not very careful the chubs will claim another victory in Utah and then we have to kill the lake off and start all over. I would like to see the lake kept as a put and take type lake for people to be able to catch a limit of bows to take home and eat (which at this time seems like the stocking needs a boost) but their needs to be a way to protect the cutts and tigers to keep the chub numbers down.......
I hate to see this great fishery falling apart!
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