01-18-2014, 01:01 AM
Harvest is the principle tool used at Powell because its the easiest thing. Powell is to big for habitat improvement, water level determined by Mother nature and multi state agreements, federal restraints on any reintroduction, never a real planting effort required or implemented. Only easy thing left are regulations determining how many fish are taken.
No limit regulations have been the result but they are not the result of a Master plans execution.
Yuba and Bolder mountain lakes containing less than 12000 surface acres actually require NO management plan because any plan will never make them become a destination fishery. Yuba in particular is subject to water levels that have always determined the success of the fishery with total disregard to whatever plan or lack of plan was was in force.
The 20 fish daily pike limit at Yuba is simple eradication disguised as a plan. Liberal limits are acceptable for reservoirs that tend to dry up at the water users whim or lakes like the boulders that winter kill on a regular basis. The reasoning for liberal limits at small impoundments are not the same as they are for Powell.
Strawberry has had hundreds of millions of dollars poured into it to become the Cutthroat hatchery that everyone recognizes is the result of a plan. The fish taken under the slot limit guidelines could be fewer than the fish killed due to mortality from regulations allowing the use of bait. Regulations that allow fishermen to harvest are better than regulations that encourage the killing and wasting of the resource.
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No limit regulations have been the result but they are not the result of a Master plans execution.
Yuba and Bolder mountain lakes containing less than 12000 surface acres actually require NO management plan because any plan will never make them become a destination fishery. Yuba in particular is subject to water levels that have always determined the success of the fishery with total disregard to whatever plan or lack of plan was was in force.
The 20 fish daily pike limit at Yuba is simple eradication disguised as a plan. Liberal limits are acceptable for reservoirs that tend to dry up at the water users whim or lakes like the boulders that winter kill on a regular basis. The reasoning for liberal limits at small impoundments are not the same as they are for Powell.
Strawberry has had hundreds of millions of dollars poured into it to become the Cutthroat hatchery that everyone recognizes is the result of a plan. The fish taken under the slot limit guidelines could be fewer than the fish killed due to mortality from regulations allowing the use of bait. Regulations that allow fishermen to harvest are better than regulations that encourage the killing and wasting of the resource.
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