Several years ago we stopped for a weekend at Ressor Res. near Elkwater. We had taken the kids there a lot of times to still-fish for the stocked rainbows and had always caught a fine feed of fresh trout. As we put in with the car-topper we were greeted by the Fish and Wildlife officer at the dock. He told us that the trout population had declined to near zero due to the illegal introduction of suckers, which had taken over the pond, and that perhaps we could present a dry fly if we wished to try for the few remaining tiny trout.
He went on to tell us that F&W planned to poison the lake the kill the "bottom-feeders" before they re-introduced the rainbows. I don't know if that ever happened but I have heard that fishing has improved there.
That seems to me to be the problem with suckers in a fishery and I don't hesitate to kill the big lippers and toss them to the birds when I fish a trout lake.
Dave Si
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