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[k2muskie]

FYSA:

http://wildlife.utah.gov/fishing-in-utah...ebook.html
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[joshmobile]

Why do they keep stocking Nine Mile if they know they're going to drain it every year?
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[PBH]

[quote joshmobile]Why do they keep stocking Nine Mile if they know they're going to drain it every year?[/quote]

How do they know it's going to be drained?


If they didn't stock it, how would the public react.

Catch 22. They (DWR) will catch he ll no matter what they do.
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[Fishrmn]

If they don't plant fish in it and they get a great snowpack or a wet summer the public will be upset that there isn't fish in it.



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[joshmobile]

I understand the public outcry of them not stocking it. The last stocking was last month. We should have already known that the snow pack was really low.
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[PBH]

maybe so -- but what wasn't known was what the snowpack was last fall when hatcheries began the process of growing fish.

Fish managers cannot predict the weather. They place their orders and set stocking schedules based on an assumption that there will be water in the lake. They cannot manage any other way.

As for the fish stocked last month (5,000 10inch fish)-- the hatcheries cannot keep those fish in the hatchery. That's a worse waste than stocking them with full knowledge that we are in a bad place with water. The only other option is to stock them in another lake -- but that might not be an option either. Did other lakes already receive a full quote? Are other lakes under the same water shortage problem, where supplemental stocking might compound the problem?



We are all very quick to criticize and complain -- most of the time we do so out of ignorance. We complain when they don't stock fish, and we complain when they do. What are they supposed to do?
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[Fishrmn]

Rather than sittin' and starin' at a computer screen, some folks are probably gonna run over to Nine Mile tomorrow and get themselves 8 trout instead of 4. There's a downside to that?

Where else were they gonna plant them? Can't keep them in the hatchery until the water comes back.



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[joshmobile]

Yeah I agree with you. It kind of bums me out that they have had to drain it the last few years. I know it's private and it's built for farmers to use for irrigation and fishing is secondary. The fish get huge in there in the years when they don't drain it. I guess they could always throw them in Palies or even Redmond.
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[Fishrmn]

Palies will dry up, and Redmond would just be like throwing sheep in with wolves. The Northern Pike would love it.



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[doggonefishin]

[quote joshmobile] The fish get huge in there in the years when they don't drain it.[/quote]


That is why they keep it well stocked every year. When there's water in there, the fish grow fast! If the fish are lost every few years, the other years of good fishing make up for it. The growth rate is such that there are chunko bows in there a short time after restocking anyway.
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[albinotrout]

Never fished it before. How big is it? Easy to launch tubes, toons, or boats?
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[doggonefishin]

Relatively small, but you can launch all of the above without much difficulty.
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[albinotrout]

Thanks
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[setthehook]

same reason they keep putting tm in newton
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[PBH]

[quote setthehook]same reason they keep putting tm in newton[/quote]

They'll never get big if they don't stock them.
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[DKStroutfitter]

I have never fished Deer Creek and it looks like I never will now.
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[FishSlayerJT]

thanks for your post. i hope we can keep them out of the other lakes.
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[albinotrout]

Haven't heard of this mussel before.
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[MisterCompletely]

[quote albinotrout]Haven't heard of this mussel before.[/quote]

It threw me too, I had to look it up. Dreissena is just the genus of the quagga mussel, same thing.
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[albinotrout]

Ok, thought they came up with a new species or something.
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