02-21-2013, 11:37 PM
[quote Gemcityslayer]The chubs will always win. Even if you poison it and restock it...it's only a matter of time before we end up right back where we are now. This reminds me a lot of people talking about "getting the burbot out of the gorge"... I have two words: Good Luck! [/quote]
Good points. If a rotenone treatment isn't worth it, explain Strawberry? It wouldn't be the same without the treatment. And it has been how many years since the treatment?
You're absolutely right about the burbot. If there was a biological solution, they wouldn't be a problem. If there was a way to reduce the chubs with predators in Scofield there wouldn't be a problem. There's no way to poison the "Gorge" to get rid of burbot, but there is a way to get rid of the chubs at Scofield. The problem comes when some bone head puts them back. They were not a problem from the 1990s after the last treatment until roughly 2008. That's nearly 30 years. Were they still around in small numbers? Or did someone decide to help the trout in Scofield grow faster, and bring them back after the DWR raised the limit to 8 fish in 2007?
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Good points. If a rotenone treatment isn't worth it, explain Strawberry? It wouldn't be the same without the treatment. And it has been how many years since the treatment?
You're absolutely right about the burbot. If there was a biological solution, they wouldn't be a problem. If there was a way to reduce the chubs with predators in Scofield there wouldn't be a problem. There's no way to poison the "Gorge" to get rid of burbot, but there is a way to get rid of the chubs at Scofield. The problem comes when some bone head puts them back. They were not a problem from the 1990s after the last treatment until roughly 2008. That's nearly 30 years. Were they still around in small numbers? Or did someone decide to help the trout in Scofield grow faster, and bring them back after the DWR raised the limit to 8 fish in 2007?
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