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My dad used to tell me
about birds picking up eggs on their feet and transporting them too. While
I don't know of any confirmation of this from the scientific community, it seems
that it is a widely held belief since people I've mentioned it to already seemed
aware of it. It makes perfect sense - species propagate
themselves.
Although my fishin
partner and I love trout fishing, that being all we do (so far), we also both
are pretty convinced that trout are a pretty weak link since they require such
"perfect" conditions to live and (especially) reproduce, are easily
outcompeted by spiny rays, etc.
my 2
cents...
Last September I was talking to Dennis at Kauffman's in Bellevue about
where the so called "trash fish" which keep showing up in the
Nunnally, Merry, Lenice string of lakes were coming from. He told me
that they had found a lot of them were coming down into the lakes from small
irrigation overflow streams from a lake which is up on the hill to the north
of the lakes. He said they had screened it off to prevent, as much as
possible, any future population of the lake. So something may have
broken down in that set up, or more likely, some of the people around who
really like warm water fishing may have thrown in a few fish to see if they
would develop into a fishable resource. Conversations
with various game wardens indicate a very large problem
in Eastern Washington is with the illegal planting of species.
Problem is that these warm water species tend to take over the food supply and
trout usually end up on the short end. In Utah, at Pine View lake, some
years ago they went through the poison and restock routine so many times that
they decided to bring in Muskies to take care of the warm water fish.
Now, that is about all you can catch there. Interesting fishery, but again
brings up the argument of introducing non native species into area waters.
Just my two cents worth.
Roger
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From:
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Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 6:37
PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Nunally bluegills?
I know that it may seem that I am being technical, but I
wouldn't be surprised if the "bluegill" you saw were actually pumpkinseed
sunfish. These guys are the true "rabbits" of the basin. Speaking of
pumpkinseed, last weekend I was catching pumpkinseed as big as 5-6 inches at
Antilon in Chelan County. The point is, without the pressure, which
they seldom get, they can get as big as bluegills.
It
supposedly is impossible to get a 100% eradication of fish, especially if
the lake has any kind of undercurrent. Mar Don legend reports that
(certain seep lakes :))have been rotenoned many times throughout the years
and guys will catch extremely big browns, bass, etc fishing deep In
the years immediately following the clean-up. Thus, the fish under the
undercurrent were never affected. Also, fish up in the tules also get
away from the clean up. Male Pumpkinseed, which can easily be spotted
on their reds in 5" of water would be safe. And their progeny would
bear the torch for another generation of scrap fish. Just my
.02.
"Kent Lufkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Forgot to mention in my earlier report that as we were
pulling out over in
>the SE corner of Nunally the other day, Les and I
spied a number of small
>fish, perhaps 5-6 inches long and more oval
shaped than trout. Unlike trout,
>they were cruising the shallows in a
school of perhaps a dozen. Having
>caught them before in Texas, Les
was fairly sure they were bluegill.
>
>I though Nunally and
Lenice had been nuked a few years ago prior to the
>introduction of
triploids and other trout? If so, where do these spiny rays
>keep
coming from?
>
>Kent
Lufkin
>
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