Would you support the intro of a bass fishery in Alberta?

[Kokanee9]

As the title suggests, would you support the introduction of a bass fishery in AB?

[albertadeer]

If by support you mean catch and eat them.....

[Donkey Oatey]

NO


Can we go a week without someone bringing up bass?

[Okotokian]

Yes, of course it would be fun to fish for bass. But as a matter of principle alone I'm not in favour of new species introduction. It often seems to go a little haywire. And yes I know we hunt and fish many introduced species now. I can live with that, but don't want to take it further. We have many wonderful species to hunt and fish for right now. Lets spend our time and money managing THEM, rather than spending it on introducing new species.

[huntsfurfish]

With SRD current policy - never happen.

Sorry shouldnt say never.

How bout extremely unlikely.

[chubbdarter]

curious those who support Bass in AB.....what lakes would you pick to stock them in?

[FisherPotch]

Originally Posted by chubbdarter

curious those who support Bass in AB.....what lakes would you pick to stock them in?

I'd think fenced in put and take sloughs or pits with no other near by waters and video surveylance. It's interesting that we don't have bass in Ab, they were stocked into a couple lakes decades ago. Surprising that the bucket brigade didn't get involved. I just would like to catch one or two without making a 600km trip.

I personally would like to know more about them. How are they for surviving in low oxygen conditions? Would they out eat native species? Are there Triploid bass? What conditions are required for them to spawn?

[Dust1n]

Originally Posted by chubbdarter

curious those who support Bass in AB.....what lakes would you pick to stock them in?

bass has already been stocked in alot of central to southern lakes with no results... they just are not ment for our province. and if they do its a waste of money. because we already know whas gonna happen. if they do its goingg to be in the south eastern part of our provnince in small ponds with lots of cover water and lots of forage including, crayfish,worms,leeches,mice,birds,ect. also a self sustaining population of panfish and baitfish.

[llmitch]

Originally Posted by chubbdarter

curious those who support Bass in AB.....what lakes would you pick to stock them in?

You could start with Amisk Lake near Boyle as there are no perch left to speak of ever since the C & R of walleye in 1996. Last year and again this year you can catch and keep 3 walleye in the special draw system but the lake is completely over populated with walleye.

[albertadeer]

I was thinking we would just expand Alberta's boarder to include some of B.C.'s Bass lakes....as well as some more laker lakes and some with carp....

[HunterDave]

The bucket brigades would have a blast with this..........sigh.

Originally Posted by Donkey Oatey

NO


Can we go a week without someone bringing up bass?

If you dont want to hear about bass then dont read and dont write in !!

[Donkey Oatey]

Sorry to put you off. You asked how we felt. I told you.

Keep bass out of Alberta.

[Lefty-Canuck]

Originally Posted by Donkey Oatey

Sorry to put you off. You asked how we felt. I told you.

Keep bass out of Alberta.

^^^^
Exactly...if you can't handle the answer then don't ask the question....

Lefty

[BBJTKLE&FISHINGADVENTURES]

Originally Posted by Donkey Oatey

Sorry to put you off. You asked how we felt. I told you.

Keep bass out of Alberta.

I'm not going threw 900 posts , but here's my point of view.

x 900,000

Like others have said work on the walleye populations and getting other species on a viable fishery rather then forget the current problem and bring in a new one .

If you want bass , go to BC , Manitoba , Ontario or anywhere else that has them . Yes I like fishing for them green machines , nothing more exciting then being hooked into a 3 lb small mouth and it fighting like a 20 lb pike . I just don't think we need then here .

[npauls]

I think if they were to stock bass in alberta a good spot to start would be small local community ponds that they stock every year with trout anyways. See how they do and they are normally just snow melt and rain runoff ponds anyways and alot of them don't have any kind of major water source connected to them. They put a small areation system in if the oxygen would be a problem and try stocking those little ponds for a few years and see how they work out. If they figure it isn't going to work then just stop stocking them and they will die off and if it does work then look into other bigger lakes.

This would cut down on the amount of small put and take rainbow ponds and make for a bit of variety. It also wouldn't cost anymore since they stock them with trout every year anyways so they could just take the money they were going to use for those trout and switch it to bass. Even a few years of experimenting would be worth a shot.

[chubbdarter]

i wonder how many people in Creston look at Duck Lake and say ' i wish we had walleye and pike in Duck lake' ?

[greylynx]

It has never worked, and it never will.

As a taxpayer, why don't you people raise your own bass in your own water, and pay for all costs including constant disease analysis. And I mean all of it.

We already have BKD in some of the trout in this province. What more do you want?

BKD is Bacterial Kidney Infection

[chubbdarter]

Originally Posted by greylynx

It has never worked, and it never will.

As a taxpayer, why don't you people raise your own bass in your own water, and pay for all costs including constant disease analysis. And I mean all of it.

We already have BKD in some of the trout in this province. What more do you want?

BKD is Bacterial Kidney Infection

knowing our luck the next batch of Bass for transplanting will come with some bonus gobbies and zebra mussels too

[horsetrader]

Originally Posted by greylynx

It has never worked, and it never will.

As a taxpayer, why don't you people raise your own bass in your own water, and pay for all costs including constant disease analysis. And I mean all of it.

We already have BKD in some of the trout in this province. What more do you want?

BKD is Bacterial Kidney Infection

Are you trying to attribute this infection to the introduction of bass from years ago?

[demolition101]

Originally Posted by Donkey Oatey

NO


Can we go a week without someone bringing up bass?

If ur sick of the topic, why read and respond?

[cooper]

For sure once the fisheries we got wont support the fish we already have.

[chubbdarter]

YES'S are ahead

[horsetrader]

Originally Posted by chubbdarter

YES'S are ahead

Sometimes people just want what they want............

[pickrel pat]

.

[chubbdarter]

its a runaway now....which is good...my lunch box will only increase in value