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Killing northern pik on purpose in California

nine-tiner

By nine-tiner
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hunting4walleyes Rookie

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I think a lot of people are missing the point here. Like it was said in a previous post, they do it here right in Minnesota when invasive species get into our trout lakes. Stocking a trout lake is very expensive and time consuming for the fisheries department. There is a plan for every lake to what is to be stocked and managed. None of this would have happened if some knucklehead would not have thrown some pike in there. There is absolutely no way hook and line or gill netting would have rid this lake of all the pike. If they missed a couple, the population would have been back a few years later. I am a huge pike fan and love to fish for them. That's why you will never see me do something dumb like keeping some and intentionally stocking them in a different lake. smirk.gif

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My hand is raised. The biologist have studied these chemicals and I believe they can be applied safely. I have no problem with the MN DNR killing off carp and bullheads etc to save some duck lakes or trout lakes. In Alaska when I lived up there some pike got introduced into native trout lakes and wrecked havoc. Invasive is invasive no matter what the species does elsewhere.

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Raise your hand if you think pouring many gallons of poison into a lake is a good idea for any reason. Sounds like a future regret to me.

Rotenone is a nonsynthetic plant based poison. Its used everywhere to reclaim lakes from "exotic" species including here in Mn.

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A couple years ago I was fishing lake Jane, the one by demontreville in the east metro. I got snagged on an orange gill net, maybe 3 feet high, and at least 100' feet long. It was full of hammerhandles. Turns out the DNR was intentionally ridding the lake of northern pike. Apparently bass are not susceptible to gill nets, they just swim around them.

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Questor Rising Star

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I used to have a favorite bass lake where I never caught any northerns. It was a great spot for fall bass. Then I started catching hammerhandle northerns after never having caught one there. Then the lake wasn't so good for bass anymore. Now I catch 2 and 3 pound northerns and have not caught a single bass there this year. I think the northerns have something to do with the disappearance of the bass there.

Another lake was a really good bass lake. It was taken over by carp. I stopped catching bass in the murky but formerly clear water. Now the carp have come into balance with the lake and I catch bass again.

No point to these stories, just some experiences. (But I sure miss that good spot for fall bass. It was great.)

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