07-02-2006, 05:07 PM
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To answer your question, "[size 1]Can anyone enlighten the board as to why they would not grow any bigger? ", [black][size 2]from the info I have read, wipers like stripers, need deep water to stay cool in the hot summer months[/size][/black]. [black][size 2]There is more oxy in deeper water, parts per billion or what ever the term is, have be high[/size][/black].[/size] The wipers will rest in the deep water and feed for short periods of time in the shallows, if they stay too long in the shallows they will die because of the lack of oxy rich water. Willard would need water around 10 feet deeper for the wipers to get much larger than they are today. With the higher water we have had in the last two years, I have high hopes that the current record will be broken, could be a pounds or so heavier but I doubt we will ever see a 10 lb wiper come out of Willard.[
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Here is an picture and article of the Colorado sate record wiper.
[size 1]From The Denver Post 3-24-04:
Pueblo Reservoir yields whopper record wiper
By Charlie Meyers
Denver Post Outdoor Editor
PUEBLO - Kevin Treanor wasn't content simply with smashing
the Colorado record for wiper.
The remarkable 26-pound, 15-ounce fish he caught Monday at
Pueblo Reservoir also is the second-largest taken anywhere
and the biggest on a fly.
The International Game Fish Association world record is 27
pounds, 5 ounces. Robin Knox, sport fish coordinator with the
Colorado Division of Wildlife, said Treanor's fish almost
certainly will rank as the fly rod world record.
The 37-inch fish with a 26-inch girth added 3 pounds to the
Colorado record, dwarfing a 23-pound, 15-ounce specimen taken
in 1996 at Nee Noshe Reservoir near Eads.
The wiper that Treanor, a resident of nearby Pueblo West and
a former fly-fishing guide, took on a streamer fly while
searching for fish on the surface might have fared even
better in the record department had he been more aware of its
potential.
"I wish I had gotten to the scale sooner," said Treanor, who
made it to a certified scale at a local grocery store on his
second attempt at weighing it. "Like a knucklehead, I drained
the live well. I believe this cost me at least 6 ounces in
weight."
Treanor spotted the fish rolling on the surface near the west
end of the reservoir.
"At first, I thought it was duck. Then when I got within 30
yards, I knew it was no duck."
He fought the fish for 15 minutes and then broke a net while
bringing it into the boat." [/size]
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To answer your question, "[size 1]Can anyone enlighten the board as to why they would not grow any bigger? ", [black][size 2]from the info I have read, wipers like stripers, need deep water to stay cool in the hot summer months[/size][/black]. [black][size 2]There is more oxy in deeper water, parts per billion or what ever the term is, have be high[/size][/black].[/size] The wipers will rest in the deep water and feed for short periods of time in the shallows, if they stay too long in the shallows they will die because of the lack of oxy rich water. Willard would need water around 10 feet deeper for the wipers to get much larger than they are today. With the higher water we have had in the last two years, I have high hopes that the current record will be broken, could be a pounds or so heavier but I doubt we will ever see a 10 lb wiper come out of Willard.[
] Here is an picture and article of the Colorado sate record wiper.
[size 1]From The Denver Post 3-24-04:
Pueblo Reservoir yields whopper record wiper
By Charlie Meyers
Denver Post Outdoor Editor
PUEBLO - Kevin Treanor wasn't content simply with smashing
the Colorado record for wiper.
The remarkable 26-pound, 15-ounce fish he caught Monday at
Pueblo Reservoir also is the second-largest taken anywhere
and the biggest on a fly.
The International Game Fish Association world record is 27
pounds, 5 ounces. Robin Knox, sport fish coordinator with the
Colorado Division of Wildlife, said Treanor's fish almost
certainly will rank as the fly rod world record.
The 37-inch fish with a 26-inch girth added 3 pounds to the
Colorado record, dwarfing a 23-pound, 15-ounce specimen taken
in 1996 at Nee Noshe Reservoir near Eads.
The wiper that Treanor, a resident of nearby Pueblo West and
a former fly-fishing guide, took on a streamer fly while
searching for fish on the surface might have fared even
better in the record department had he been more aware of its
potential.
"I wish I had gotten to the scale sooner," said Treanor, who
made it to a certified scale at a local grocery store on his
second attempt at weighing it. "Like a knucklehead, I drained
the live well. I believe this cost me at least 6 ounces in
weight."
Treanor spotted the fish rolling on the surface near the west
end of the reservoir.
"At first, I thought it was duck. Then when I got within 30
yards, I knew it was no duck."
He fought the fish for 15 minutes and then broke a net while
bringing it into the boat." [/size]
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