05-24-2016, 08:37 PM
[quote TubeDude][#0000ff] It is too many mouths and not enough food.
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What all of you keep forgetting is that you can't just keep adding more fish (ie: forage).
What is the carrying capacity of Jordanelle?
How close to carrying capacity are we currently at (over)?
If you are already at that point, which I think we are, then you cannot just add more fish (ie: increase perch spawn / numbers) and expect anything good to come of it!
The solution is a very simple solution, but anglers never like to hear it: remove fish!
any fish. Big fish. Little fish. Red fish. Blue fish. Catfish. Dog fish. Perch fish. Any fish.
Remove some fish.
You knock the overall fish population back by 50% and watch what fast growth does!
We see this every time we rotenone a trout water.
We see this every time a winterkill hits a Boulder Mountain lake.
We even saw this at Yuba after it would crash.
We'll see this with Gunlock.
Lower the fish population and fast growth will take over, and you'll have those trophy SMB back, for a time.
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What all of you keep forgetting is that you can't just keep adding more fish (ie: forage).
What is the carrying capacity of Jordanelle?
How close to carrying capacity are we currently at (over)?
If you are already at that point, which I think we are, then you cannot just add more fish (ie: increase perch spawn / numbers) and expect anything good to come of it!
The solution is a very simple solution, but anglers never like to hear it: remove fish!
any fish. Big fish. Little fish. Red fish. Blue fish. Catfish. Dog fish. Perch fish. Any fish.
Remove some fish.
You knock the overall fish population back by 50% and watch what fast growth does!
We see this every time we rotenone a trout water.
We see this every time a winterkill hits a Boulder Mountain lake.
We even saw this at Yuba after it would crash.
We'll see this with Gunlock.
Lower the fish population and fast growth will take over, and you'll have those trophy SMB back, for a time.
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