03-21-2011, 07:59 PM
If this was just trout lakes in Utah I and others mite agree with you and the DWR but our lakes or most of them are not just trout lakes...
And trout is not what most people would fish for if they had a choice...In the US trout is # five down the list, but in Utah they almost only grow trout for restocking and let any other type of fish have there ups and downs...
If a lake gets fished out of trout they just restock it but if the same lake gets fished out of the Perch or bass or Walleye they just say its on a low or crash and let it recover on its own and in most lakes that is years if ever...Oh but the DWR and others say that the other fish are not suited for our lakes...but trout are better suited??
If they are? Why do they need to plant so many???
And why is it that other lakes (out side of Utah) want the minnows as food for all the game fish, and they say the more food the more and bigger the game fish will get...
I have fished all over and never seen or heard of a lake or river that had too much food or minnows in it, so why does the UT DWR try so hard to get read of them???
Even trout eat minnow when they reach a size and they need them to grow bigger, like at the Berry and a few other lakes now that poisoning is too costly...
Look at Powell over the last 15 years...Ups and downs, then the shad showed up and BOOM all the game fish in the lake are getting fat and more of them then before...
Look at the Berry YES the Berry now cause of the chubs and other minnows the slot limit was put on and now you have a great trout lake with lots of fish over 20"...
All of the better lakes with or that have the bigger fish in them have minnows in them and the more minnows they have the more and bigger game fish they produce...
In other states you can buy minnow at the lakes or marinas on the lakes, so why is Utah so backward???
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And trout is not what most people would fish for if they had a choice...In the US trout is # five down the list, but in Utah they almost only grow trout for restocking and let any other type of fish have there ups and downs...
If a lake gets fished out of trout they just restock it but if the same lake gets fished out of the Perch or bass or Walleye they just say its on a low or crash and let it recover on its own and in most lakes that is years if ever...Oh but the DWR and others say that the other fish are not suited for our lakes...but trout are better suited??
If they are? Why do they need to plant so many???
And why is it that other lakes (out side of Utah) want the minnows as food for all the game fish, and they say the more food the more and bigger the game fish will get...
I have fished all over and never seen or heard of a lake or river that had too much food or minnows in it, so why does the UT DWR try so hard to get read of them???
Even trout eat minnow when they reach a size and they need them to grow bigger, like at the Berry and a few other lakes now that poisoning is too costly...
Look at Powell over the last 15 years...Ups and downs, then the shad showed up and BOOM all the game fish in the lake are getting fat and more of them then before...
Look at the Berry YES the Berry now cause of the chubs and other minnows the slot limit was put on and now you have a great trout lake with lots of fish over 20"...
All of the better lakes with or that have the bigger fish in them have minnows in them and the more minnows they have the more and bigger game fish they produce...
In other states you can buy minnow at the lakes or marinas on the lakes, so why is Utah so backward???
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