leadeyedbugger
04-11-2007, 04:04 PM
I figure that its time to bring this back up to the front of peoples minds.
Once again ODFW has called upon us flyfishermen and women to help them with a population survey and transportation of bass out of davis lake. ODFW are going to be electro shocking and tagging fish in the lake the weeks prior to us going up. They will also be collecting the fish they tagged via electro shocking. However,...they want us to go in and collect as many fish as we can on the weekend to help collect tagged and untagged fish as part of the survey. These fish are to be taken as LIVE prisoners and ODFW is going to transport them to different ponds and lakes that are managed for warm water species.
The reason for this survey without going into alot of detail(pm for more background info if wanted) is that ODFW needs and wants to do something about the bass population in the lake to protect the Native species in the system(redbands,whitefish,and Bulls) this stems mainly from the Bull Trout in the system. The survey is needed as information to help them come up with a plan that they can take to the commission for this. Informally options could include mandatory catch and kill of bass,rotenoning or the lake, doing nothing. This is a project that ODFW locally considers high priority. They really need and want our help.....
As far as the Event itself.....There will be live pens setup in the lake for people to put fish in. from there odfw will transport them into there tanker truck. Last year it really helped that people with boats took time to pick up fish from people that were fishing in tubes/toons for easy transportation.
Last year we did a potluck dinner saturday night. I think that it would be fun to do so again. So if everyone wants to bring a dish for potluck dinner sat night that would be great.
More info to come.
Once again ODFW has called upon us flyfishermen and women to help them with a population survey and transportation of bass out of davis lake. ODFW are going to be electro shocking and tagging fish in the lake the weeks prior to us going up. They will also be collecting the fish they tagged via electro shocking. However,...they want us to go in and collect as many fish as we can on the weekend to help collect tagged and untagged fish as part of the survey. These fish are to be taken as LIVE prisoners and ODFW is going to transport them to different ponds and lakes that are managed for warm water species.
The reason for this survey without going into alot of detail(pm for more background info if wanted) is that ODFW needs and wants to do something about the bass population in the lake to protect the Native species in the system(redbands,whitefish,and Bulls) this stems mainly from the Bull Trout in the system. The survey is needed as information to help them come up with a plan that they can take to the commission for this. Informally options could include mandatory catch and kill of bass,rotenoning or the lake, doing nothing. This is a project that ODFW locally considers high priority. They really need and want our help.....
As far as the Event itself.....There will be live pens setup in the lake for people to put fish in. from there odfw will transport them into there tanker truck. Last year it really helped that people with boats took time to pick up fish from people that were fishing in tubes/toons for easy transportation.
Last year we did a potluck dinner saturday night. I think that it would be fun to do so again. So if everyone wants to bring a dish for potluck dinner sat night that would be great.
More info to come.