12-15-2005, 10:56 PM
Basserdude -- Yuba and Deer Creek are not good examples to use. Yuba is a bathtub with very little cover for perch. This means they are extremely easy targets for a voracious predator (Walleye). Their numbers are kept in check by this predator. Deer Creek is pretty much the same situation. Sure, it has lots of rocky structure, but no cover like Fish Lake:
Fish Lake has it's own nuisance species (eurasion watermillfoil). This aquatic vegetation has provided the perfect cover for the perch to escape predation from larger predators. The perch wiped out he chub population in Fish Lake, which was the Lake Trout's primary food source. Once the chubs were gone, the Lake trout switched to rainbow trout for forage, leaving the perch without a predator to control their numbers. This means certain overpopulation, which is in full effect in Fish Lake.
If you truly want an answer to your concerns with perch management in Utah from the DWR, then you are looking in the wrong place. It sounds like the majority of your concerns are in the Central Region. I can get you the phone number of the Central Region offices if you would like. You should call them and talk with them directly. Please, let us all know how the conversation goes.
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Fish Lake has it's own nuisance species (eurasion watermillfoil). This aquatic vegetation has provided the perfect cover for the perch to escape predation from larger predators. The perch wiped out he chub population in Fish Lake, which was the Lake Trout's primary food source. Once the chubs were gone, the Lake trout switched to rainbow trout for forage, leaving the perch without a predator to control their numbers. This means certain overpopulation, which is in full effect in Fish Lake.
If you truly want an answer to your concerns with perch management in Utah from the DWR, then you are looking in the wrong place. It sounds like the majority of your concerns are in the Central Region. I can get you the phone number of the Central Region offices if you would like. You should call them and talk with them directly. Please, let us all know how the conversation goes.
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