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draggerWed Jan-26-11 06:44 AM
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I have heard those same rumors to, but the local authorities have stepped up to better patrol the lake after hours and write citations now.

We do get hit hard in the spawn by many different kinds of anglers and some are less ethical than others. While we don't get a lot of bass actually kept during spawn, it is always the biggest models in the 6-8 pound range predominately. Most people try and eat them and then complain they taste bad or get a skin mount made to put in their office. Total waste of a very important fish, but they see it as a great opportunity to brag about how good of a fisherman they are even though they caught in off of a bed with a Kastmaster. There was a kid who caught a 10 pounder during the spawn from shore on the other side of the lake and put a rope through its gills and dragged it to the dock and took pictures for 5 minutes. Poor bass barely swam off, but who knows if it survived, she was pretty abused.

Fortunately, we are making it MANDATORY catch a release for ALL bass from February to May in an effort to curb the taking of our backbone trophy breeders. There is still a very heavy population of good fish in Lake Poway, but this lake had the potential to crank out a world record and due to the hard work of the bucket brigade and Tail Walker trout, it seems that that is changing. I hope not. I fished Dixon a few times last year and there was always a guy who would catch close to 10 fish a day during the spawn, all over 6 pounds with some being over 10 and he would keep them in his backpack. I told the rangers and they said they would be on it. Never saw them once and I saw him everyday carrying out 50+ pounds of bass a day.

The trout that we stock are never small. Maybe a few one pounders mixed in, but never the palm sized trout that the DFG put in. The average fish is between 2-6 pounds. These fish are smart and fast too, they don't ball up in schools near the bank and sit there like the smaller trout did as bass pick them off one by one. They are always swimming around and really alert. We could request smaller fish mixed in, but then the trout fisherman would be upset. I think we should go back to smaller fish because then the bass grow bigger and the trout are much easier to catch so everybody wins. But it isn't my call to make so while we could get smaller trout, we won't because their is a huge demand for these trophy trout over trophy bass. I spoke to a guy who works at the water treatment plant over at Jennings and he said that they have made the conscientious choice to specifically stock smaller trout for the reasons above. Feed the fisherman and feed the bass. I think that is a great step towards maintaining a trophy fishery and a fun place for people to come fish. All I know is that we need smaller trout in all the lakes!

  

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San Diego - what happened [View all] , swimbait, Mon Jan-24-11 04:12 PM
  RE: San Diego - what happened, Mattlures, Jan 24th 2011, #1
RE: San Diego - what happened, dragger, Jan 25th 2011, #2
RE: San Diego - what happened, Mattlures, Jan 25th 2011, #3
      RE: San Diego - what happened, dragger, Jan 26th 2011 #4
           RE: San Diego - what happened, Mattlures, Jan 26th 2011, #5
RE: San Diego - what happened, swimbait, Jan 27th 2011, #6
RE: San Diego - what happened, dragger, Jan 27th 2011, #7
RE: San Diego - what happened, newmoonbite, Jan 29th 2011, #8
      RE: San Diego - what happened, swimbait, Jan 30th 2011, #9

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