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sadly well see how this theory works at kicking horse res and the nine pipes chain...once the pike establish....bucket biologist can suck it....
The carp/sucker die off helped them to have an epic spawn = population bloom.
you dont think the lack of carp eating perch fry had an effect on their survival rate?
I’ve seen and have known many guys that catch carp (+10lbs) on rapalas in the spring fishing for walleyes at the causeway. Yes catch not snag. Those rapalas they’re using are 2 3/4”- 3” in size. If there hitting those they have to be eating real perch of the same size. So a huge die off of carp would definetly help the perch population in Holter
And as for the big water years I don’t see that helping a reservoir that barley fluctuates. Hauser and Holter hold a pretty consistent water level all year.
I’ve seen and have known many guys that catch carp (+10lbs) on rapalas in the spring fishing for walleyes at the causeway. Yes catch not snag. Those rapalas they’re using are 2 3/4”- 3” in size. If there hitting those they have to be eating real perch of the same size. So a huge die off of carp would definetly help the perch population in Holter.
I don’t. If anything, I think it would would be an issue of competition for similar food, not predation.
I don’t disagree about the potential impacts of carp to perch spawn and spawning habitat. But unless carp are time travelers...and I can’t prove they’re not...it seems unlikely a July 2013 carp die-off would have had much effect on the April 2011 perch spawning success.