pokerfish Posted August 12, 2015 Share Posted August 12, 2015 http://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/recreation/article_cbe08667-9139-5b68-9048-76c1bd2643a8.html interesting 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smitty Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 I was just there. I only caught cutts. Doesn't the poison affect all fauna, including aquatic insects and plants? Not surprised by this move though. Lamar watershed has "must kill" regs on it for non-native fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagabond Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Likely using Rotenone,a piscicide that only affects fish as far as I know? It's a shame that our federal and provincial governments weren't more open to using Rotenone,there's a disaster waiting to happen on Miramichi Lk in the headwaters of North Americas's most prolific Atlantic Salmon river. Some ***hat cottager(most likely?) illegally transplanted smallmouth bass into M Lk 7-8(?)yrs ago.DFO and NBDNR have spent the last 5-6yrs trying to eradicate the bass thru electro fishing and trap nets,all the while hoping to keep them contained to the lake,much to the anguish of local salmon anglers,conservation groups,NGOs etc.....we want the lake KILLED with Rotenone!! Smallmouth bass are an extremely invasive species in NB and NS,where they have been indiscriminately and illegally introduced into untold hundreds of watersheds,effectively wiping out native brook trout and Atlantic salmon populations wherever they take hold. If they escape M Lk into the Main SW Miramichi River,it'll be a disaster to river communities.Atlantic Salmon angling generates an estimated $50M annually for the communities along the river. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monger Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 Those darn fish-transporting birds are at it again. Bringing bass hundreds of kilometers to a lake right where there are cottages. Its truly amazing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagabond Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Those darn fish-transporting birds are at it again. Bringing bass hundreds of kilometers to a lake right where there are cottages. Its truly amazingLoL....spoken like the Bill Dance wannabe bassholes that are responsible for the mass destruction back east...no ****, I had one ****hole **** tell me that smallmouth found their way into one of my favorite trophy Laker/Brookie headwater lakes via underground caverns and streams,a full 10 miles as the crow flies from the closest known established SMB population!!I m not sure which I hate more actually,SMB or the bassholes that fish for them and praise them as some sort of incredible game fish? Personally I leave every one of'em for dead on the riverbank.....I'll leave it open to the imagination which ********* I'm referring to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonAndersen Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Boy, did Vagabond make me feel better about my intentions of denuding a BC lake of small mouths all to feed friends and family. I feel so much better. Just wish the limit was a pickup load. Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagabond Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 Proceed with a clear conscience Don,those spiny green basst*rds will eat every trout fry/salmon parr that they can wrap their bucket mouths around until the native salmonids are wiped out.....seen it a thousand times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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