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"Outside the box"? We have stocked chinook salmon in Nebraska waters as recently as the 1990's. That did not work.We have an excellent tailwater trout fishery in Lake Ogallala.How many wipers does SoDakota have?You will be seeing tiger trout in more Nebraska waters in the coming months.SoDakota has not cornered the market on thinking outside the box.I spent a couple of years in SoDakota, I am fully aware of the fisheries they have. . . . And, I am fully aware of how much different their habitats are compared to what we have in Nebraska.And no amount of stocking can change that.Daryl B.
So, Whitetips, are you saying the part about wipers like it's a good thing? Do the wipers have anything to do with the reason I haven't caught any of the 400,000 crappies stocked in McConaughy in a few years or is it more the fluctuating water level. Talked to a electroshock team and they hadn't found them for a while either. I filled out a South Dakota fishing survey and told them I was glad they didn't feel the need to put wipers everywhere like the state to the south of them
Daryl I don't think wipers are a good argument to compare your work to South Dakota.
Guys, really? This is what we are arguing about? Half of Nebraska is not “Perch Country”. Pretty sure I do not live where I do based on the population of a single species of fish. We are not Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kansas, or South Dakota. I am glad we are Nebraska. We have things other states could only wish they did and they have some things that we only wish we had…. Fact! I love fishing in glacial lakes in South Dakota for perch, I also love fishing a Kansas mud hole for crappie, but I also love fishing for a healthy Loup River Catfish. Every area is different. I don’t always agree with the NGPC either. But they are the experts not us. They can only do certain things with our bodies of water and our diversity of climates and water qualities across the state. It would be great if I had a 30 minute to drive to catch a limit of jumbo perch but I can’t. I can however drive 30 minutes and catch 10+ inch bluegills and 30+ inch walleye. Let it go guys! Enjoy what we have.
very interesting that I am having the same exact question right now from anglers in the waters in Missouri....always this time of year when people are seeing buckets of yellow perch from up north all over the ice fishing pages....hard for anglers to understand why we cant just throw yellow perch in our Missouri reservoirs and have perch fishing like in the glacial lakes, and give examples of "my buddy has a buddy that has 12" perch in his farm pond", so why cant we get them in our public lakes? usually that pond has no bass, and is full of fatheads or shiners....not very easy to duplicate that in a public setting....and if we could, it would be over fished as soon as it got good....I too wish we could grow huge populations of 12" perch, and if we could, we would, but reality is our systems just cant....habitat, latitude, predators, etc. I cant imagine having the opportunity to start throwing perch in a new 3,000 acre lake that used to be a cattail marsh a decade ago that's surrounded by fertile land and full of freshwater shrimp and other inverts...the perch recruit, grow, and then......get wiped out by anglers......only difference is.....there is another such body of water a few miles away that will be the next lake that is hot...and so on, and so on......its a whole different world up there in the Dakotas right now....and yes, some of those anglers would chop off a limb to get into some the gills, crappie and wiper fishing we have to offer...agree with Daryl B.....its always greener across the border
Hopefully my brain surgeon is not the <%50.
Everyone is certainly entitled to their opinions. For now. My only comment, is a result of having just come from the glacial lakes. Everywhere we dropped a camera, for 3 days, freshwater shrimp were in abundance. Lacking that type of forage base, and the habitat to reproduce, I don't believe we can ever support a perch fishery like the glacial lakes region. The glacial lakes are the perfect storm for perch production. If we wanted jumbo perch, we could set the limit to say, 3 perch per day, then we would catch some limits of jumbos in 4-5 years. It is pretty much the same reason we only harvest 1 bighorn sheep every few years. We don't have the habitat to support sustained pressure and that habitat exists in few areas of the state.
Just remember that 50% of the brain surgeons graduated at the bottom of their class. Are they, too, experts?
My biggest complaint about Nebraska fisheries is that the game and parks does not put in any structure. I love how you can travel down to Kansas to a brand new lake you never fished an have a great time catching large numbers of fish and good sized fish. How can that be? It is because Kansas game and parks actually puts in structure and posts the GPS coordinates of the structure on their lakes websites. And here is something that is such a shocker. Every few years as the structures (i.e. cedars much of the time) decline, they add more trees. The trees bring in bait fish which brings along the fish. Oh and by the way, the trees provide a great place for the fish to spawn. This concept is just so simple and it is why when you head down to the Kansas lakes most of the fisherman are from Nebraska. Oh by the way, the more Nebraska fisherman that they bring to Kansas means more dollars for the state to continue to update their fisheries. I would have to think that if Nebraska did something similar it would attract outside dollars and provide for much better fisheries. What do I know though?
It's a small body of water, but the coordinates of placed-on-purpose structure are posted for Prairie Queen. I don't know if they will ever work backwards and set up more structure in other lakes. Walnut Creek gets structural elements added every couple years, but they remain largely local knowledge.
I've got two things for you belly achers and sour puss's. It's my middle fingers. Sorry your not going to get any "professionalism" from me either.. If you don't have anything positive to say or logical solutions. Shut your fish trap. It seems to me like your fishing skills are lacking.. Or you have other problems in your life??? Hell I don't know?? But I can tell you one thing. I love my state of Nebraska! You all need to shut your mouth and go fish. I'm leaving at 5 am for one of my favorite places on earth. The Valentine refuge! And you know what's going to happen to the biggest perch and bluegills I catch??!!!? There getting a photo taken put back down the hole!!!And far as the, "Baloney" comment!! You guys are little girls if that bothers you! Lmao... Grow up. If I was Daryl I would of had already lost it, said way worse and been done with Ice Shanty, Nefga, and social media because of low blows and morons... My grandpa passed away a few months ago. And one of the the things that sticks in my mind that he said to me a long time ago fishing was," The best things in life are free".. You all need to get out enjoy a sunrise, sunset, a child's laugh, big catch, or a flock of geese flying over. Anything. Goodnight I've got Jumbo Perch and big bluegills to catch in the morning. In Nebraska!!!!!
This is nothing against you, Nate, but I am glad you brought up Prairie Queen.Prairie Queen, Kramper, Summit.....they were all built by NRD's, not the Game, and Parks Department of Nebraska. But the Ne Game and Parks (interesting that there is no FISH in that name?) is more than happy to take credit for the success of those reservoirs, but if you take issue with litter or noise at the campground they are the first to send you to the NRD headquarters. Oh, and if you buy a Ne Game and Parks park sticker that's great, they will take your money happily, but if not don't worry, nobody is enforcing it at NRD/NGFP parks anyway. I'm sure that is the NRD's fault, too somehow.
Just remember that 50% of the brain surgeons graduated at the bottom of their class. Are they, too, experts?Nothing wrong with asking questions. To be dismissed by the 'brain surgeons' with the term, 'baloney', gets annoying and isn't all that impressive.Just my opinion, which would get you barred and banned from certain forums and yet they take my money for every single tag, license, and day permit that I purchase.