Fish management professional ?

[Ketchn]

I heard a tale the other day about a fishery / management / biologist / specialist person
"helping" some folks I know with their lake .
According to this person the lake was overpopulated and needed help .
He has already talked the owners into a huge fountain to add oxygen ...$$$$
and I know what is coming next ...
electro shocking program to reduce some species ....
This particular spot is so well balanced it isnt even funny .
I visited it a few times and the fish ALL look just like footballs !
The sizes range all over the map and its multi species lake with large amounts of bait all the way up to apex predator types .
there isnt anything that looks stunted and or all the same size range and or in huge amounts .
It boiled my blood to hear such NONSENSE and it is for sure about taking those folks money !
this individual knows they have money and he is going to do his best to take it !
I bent one of the owners ear's quite hard the day I heard it ...
I told them matter of fact to get a NON profit second opinion from the TPW .
Sorry for the rant but it makes my blood boil when someone is trying to take advantage of someone else trying to have a nice fishery .
and they already have one , it holds slab crappie of both species ,giant black bass and lots of other really healthy looking fish species AND DON'T need any "help" !
in the end , never mind me , just had to make sure no one else runs into this type of know what if they have a private fishery .

[hdhntr]

you can tell pretty quickly from the fish you ketch if they have an issue or not. if your bass are stunted and other species affected you can do X, which is taking out bunches of smaller bass and eating em. have done this myself on couple lakes and things go into balance in a couple of years and then the bass get fat and healthy. if you have a ton of smaller crappie or BG then you simply open up the gates and take a bunch out and again doesn't take long to get em back where they should be and introduce more top end predators.

like you said outlaw it makes you mad to see good folks get taken advantage of when there isn't a problem in the first place.

[BobC]

Yea, that’s a real shame, and it burns that you can’t do anything about it but make a good suggestion. I hope they think about what you said and talk to the TPW folks.
Bob

[longhunter]

Well, you did what you could... Now help them make sure it isn't under fished!

[Kevin22]

I fished a lake that has an awesome population of GIANT crappie and bluegill. Biggest bluegills I've ever caught, and lots of all size. The crappies were all very thick and different sizes as well, with some 15"ers. The property owner wants all crappies taken out because he wants it turned into a bass lake and the biologist said crappies would interfere.

I fished another one a while back where they put a giant fountain and completely lined the shorelines with decorative rocks, had to have spent 6 figures. Why? They wanted it to look better. Fountain cuts down on scum and algae and boost oxygen allowing for clearer water.


Point is, sometimes managed for "best fishing" isnt always what the landowner wants.