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Originally Posted by 1/2 oz Bucktail
So should we kill off all pike in lakes where walleye aren't doing well? Pike eat walleye.
Population dynamics...
Where do we draw the line on management? Do we manage individual species and subsequently manage for the reults of previous management? Or should we assign C&R regulations to all east slope waterbodies and let the populations balance themselves out.
What happens in back country streams and rivers where there is almost zero fishing pressure?
Do the bulls run rampant and completely wipe out all other species?
No. If they did, they would have cleaned all of the grayling out of the Little Smoky long ago.
The other aspect to keep in mind with bulls is that there are usually two populations within each waterbody; residents and migrants. Typically the large individuals (24" or bigger) that people catch out of the smaller tribs are migratory and do not spend the full year in these systems.
Case in point the Goat river in B.C., a Fraser Trib. The majority of large spawning age adults move into the goat and migrate through the summer season to spawning grounds afterwhich they drop back into the major River system to overwinter.
Another case would be the Ram, most of the bulls found in this river are more than likely migrants from the North Saskatchewan. Individuals will rarely occupy a holding water for much more than a couple days unless staging at some form of barrier. They are always moving.
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I vote yes on killing off the Pike...lol joking
This isnt the Goat river near Creston is it?