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05-17-2009, 12:41 PM
Gone tagging
By Joe Hansen, Outdoors Editor
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Tenmile Bass Club tags helps with ODFW study
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Det Mason of Tenmile Bass Club tags a bass at the Tenmile Lakes boat ramp on Thursday morning. The inch-long tag was placed near the dorsal fin, and the fish was later released into the lakes as part of an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife bass tracking project. World Photo by Madeline Steege
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Det Mason moves the drivers seat in his boat Thursday morning to get in his live well full of bass caught for tagging on. World Photo by Madeline Steege
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Thursday morning wasn’t exactly fishing weather.
A steady drizzle and intermittent wind had Det Mason and his son, Nick Mason, shivering as they pulled their boat into the Coos County docks in Lakeside with a live well full of four healthy largemouth bass.
“Pretty cold morning,” muttered Nick Mason.
Well, it wasn’t really a pleasure trip anyway.
Det and Nick Mason hauled the bass out and plugged them behind their dorsal fin with an inch-long, yellow tag covered in an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife identification number.
The fish didn’t like it much, flopping in reaction, but in time the tags might actually help bass populations in Tenmile Lakes.
With a donation of three fish-tagging guns worth about $600 and labor from members of the Tenmile Bass Club — Det Mason is on the board of directors — ODFW is trying to better understand the movements of bass in Tenmile Lakes.
“They want to study about populations and fish movements,” Det Mason said as he tagged the fish, which would then be returned to where they were caught.
The project is something of an experiment, in more ways than one.
“We’re doing this as a kind of a first-year test to evaluate anglers — how well they can help us in obtaining information about bass from Tenmile Lakes,” said ODFW assistant district wildlife biologist Gary Vonderohe. “If we get enough recaptures, we can do an estimate of the bass population in Tenmile Lakes.”
ODFW would like help with that, as well. As anglers take advantage of warmer months and Tenmile Lakes hosts several bass tournaments this summer, ODFW is hoping anyone finding tagged bass will record the tag number and the location where the fish was caught and released. That information can then be reported to ODFW to help with the study.
Vonderohe said ODFW has tried the same approach in the past, with limited success. This time seems to be working better.
“I think we got almost as many recaptures now as they did (in the previous study),” he said.
Anyone finding a tagged bass in Tenmile Lakes can report the find to the Charleston ODFW office at 888-5515.
By Joe Hansen, Outdoors Editor
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Tenmile Bass Club tags helps with ODFW study
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Det Mason of Tenmile Bass Club tags a bass at the Tenmile Lakes boat ramp on Thursday morning. The inch-long tag was placed near the dorsal fin, and the fish was later released into the lakes as part of an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife bass tracking project. World Photo by Madeline Steege
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Det Mason moves the drivers seat in his boat Thursday morning to get in his live well full of bass caught for tagging on. World Photo by Madeline Steege
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Det Mason of Tenmile Bass Club tags a bass at the Tenmile Lakes boat ramp on Thursday morning. The inch-long tag was placed near the dorsal fin, and the fish was later released into the lakes as part of an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife bass tracking project. World Photo by Madeline Steege
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Thursday morning wasn’t exactly fishing weather.
A steady drizzle and intermittent wind had Det Mason and his son, Nick Mason, shivering as they pulled their boat into the Coos County docks in Lakeside with a live well full of four healthy largemouth bass.
“Pretty cold morning,” muttered Nick Mason.
Well, it wasn’t really a pleasure trip anyway.
Det and Nick Mason hauled the bass out and plugged them behind their dorsal fin with an inch-long, yellow tag covered in an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife identification number.
The fish didn’t like it much, flopping in reaction, but in time the tags might actually help bass populations in Tenmile Lakes.
With a donation of three fish-tagging guns worth about $600 and labor from members of the Tenmile Bass Club — Det Mason is on the board of directors — ODFW is trying to better understand the movements of bass in Tenmile Lakes.
“They want to study about populations and fish movements,” Det Mason said as he tagged the fish, which would then be returned to where they were caught.
The project is something of an experiment, in more ways than one.
“We’re doing this as a kind of a first-year test to evaluate anglers — how well they can help us in obtaining information about bass from Tenmile Lakes,” said ODFW assistant district wildlife biologist Gary Vonderohe. “If we get enough recaptures, we can do an estimate of the bass population in Tenmile Lakes.”
ODFW would like help with that, as well. As anglers take advantage of warmer months and Tenmile Lakes hosts several bass tournaments this summer, ODFW is hoping anyone finding tagged bass will record the tag number and the location where the fish was caught and released. That information can then be reported to ODFW to help with the study.
Vonderohe said ODFW has tried the same approach in the past, with limited success. This time seems to be working better.
“I think we got almost as many recaptures now as they did (in the previous study),” he said.
Anyone finding a tagged bass in Tenmile Lakes can report the find to the Charleston ODFW office at 888-5515.