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Originally Posted by wind drift
There are no perch in Hasse any longer. It winterkilled hard for a few years in a row. It still remains to be seen if the stocked rainbows will survive a summer. Water quality may be marginal.
I suggest those folks who want quality stocked trout fishing need to let AEP know. When Dolberg was changed to a quality fishery, some Barrhead area locals, in particular the County and the Barrhead F&G club, complained bitterly, saying that their lake should be managed for families, not elite fly fishers. That, despite knowing that only a very small number of lakes are managed for quality or even capable of providing it.
I don’t think that thinking outside the box is a problem. The challenge is probably dealing with competing interests and loud voices.
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Wow. I’m surprised no perch survived. I would still recommend stocking some browns just to be sure.
One thing people need to decide is are stocked lakes just a storage repository for trout before going into a freezer and is it a free for all to kill them all as fast as possible...
Or...
Should it be a controlled release of trout over time while affording a recreational past time that is rewarding due to a catchable population of trout.
In other words managing a lake for catch rate versus kill rate.
For those wanting to catch and not kill...the recreational component remains critical.
For those wanting to kill...a consideration is that over time a quality fishery will allow a harvest over a longer period. Combine that with fish of a much larger size...the ratio of meat to number of fish killed remains fairly even.
Consideration some don’t give to the conversation is a harvest of five 10 inch trout likely gibes as much meat as one 20 inch trout.
But the best thing is...having a lake to catch fish in the day after stocking or 6 months later provides way more value to the community as a whole.
F&W can do a survey however, no one wants a lake with nontrout in it.
My feelings on the subject.