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When was our last pike caught on Winnisquam? Any photos of the recent catchs?
Oh I do Scott, I was just trying to find out if these were recent catches or from last year.
AWESOME..... There breeding!!!!
caught them this past week (2010)
Its "their" and not awesome at all, they will eat all the Salmon and other fish that are trying to have a sustainable population in that lake. They didnt occur there naturally, so they shouldnt be there at all.That being said, I wouldnt mind catching one.....
how many feet of water did you catch them in and was it the north end or the south end?
Did you get a photo of one of them Winnisquam Guy?
There's another fish that was stock in NH waters by Bucket Biologist The Black Crappie. Now there taking over some of out finer fish lake and ponds.
This is exactly what happens when F&G neglects the warmwater fishery in this state. Clowns take matters into their own hands and these fish are then put into random lakes. F&G must take notice that people want the chance to fish for pike, musky, walleye, etc... in this state. They shouldn't have to drive 2+ hours to do so. I've called them on this and they always complain about cost/budget. A warmwater stocking program could easily be instituted if they would allocate some of the money from the trout/salmon budget and put it towards this. Let's face it. A lot of the money goes into stocking 8-12" trout into ponds and streams that simply can't sustain these fish once summer time comes. It's put and take and there's no other way to label it. I'm not saying to do away with this, I'm simply saying to take some of these dollars and devote them to a warmwater stocking program managed by professionals, not some bucket biologists. It's ludicrous that all of our license dollars goes into stocking fish species that don't reproduce naturally in our lakes. Some of this should go into stocking fish that have a much better chance to reproduce and grow to trophy size. Even if these fish didn't reproduce as expected, they could still be stocked similar to the put and take philosophy with trout/salmon. Lovell Lake comes to mind. Walleye were stocked in the past 10 years and there were confirmed catches of fish over 8 lbs. Why was this stocking stopped? I called F&G and they said they weren't reproducing so it wasn't cost effective. I asked them about trout reproduction and this same logic and all I got was a lot of "ah's and well's". In other words, they had no response. Same thing goes with putting in pike in Massabesic and abandoning it soon after. Heck, if they don't want these fish to reproduce, put in tiger muskie, which are sterile. I would like to fish for ALL species in our great state and not have to drive forever to do so. We can have two tier fisheries that hold trophy cold and warmwater fish. Go fish the Finger Lakes in NY and you'll see what I mean. F&G simply can't decide to put warmwater fish in a couple lakes and expect it to ever be successful. We all know what happens. Word gets out and the lake gets hammered and the rest is history. There are plenty of waterbodies in southern/central NH that could be used to stock pike,walleye, musky, etc.... Put them in a good number of lakes to spread out the pressure and I think there would be some positive results. We can have it both ways in NH. We shouldn't have to settle for one or the other. I honestly feel we could have both trophy cold and warmwater fisheries in this state with some reallocation of our license dollars. Sadly, until F&G realizes this, I think we're going to see more and more illegal stockings in the future. I love to fish for all species (trout,salmon,bass, pike, walleye etc...) Not sure what everybody thinks about this, but I'm interested to see if my feelings are shared by others. Good, civil debate never hurt anyone.Thanks,Chris
coho program?Why couldn't they put Chinook salmon
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