sunfighter
8/3/2015 12:00:00 AMI've never understood poisoning a lake,just makes more sense to me to remove the limit on sunfish and bluegill And encourage people to fish for them.
FlamDragger
8/3/2015 2:34:00 AMI'd heard that it's Badger Lake, that is being looked at for rotenone treatments. The spiny rays from Badger migrate (?) into Williams, also from what I'd heard. Great looking fish!
dwh4784
8/3/2015 10:00:00 AMNice fish! Good to know people are still catching trout with the heat we've been having.
T-Bone
8/4/2015 6:31:00 AMBadger Lake and Williams Lake share a creek between the two. Yes, the spiny rays migrate. Both lakes will be treated in late October; not September 1 st. I attended the WDFW public meeting in Cheney. The pumpkinseed sunfish dominate the fish bio-mass to the tune of 90 some percent in both lakes. Most of the sunfish are barely above minnow dinks. The rehab for Badger Lake is long over due and sister lake Williams needs to be treated as well to do it right.
TroutMaster24
8/4/2015 1:49:00 PMT-bone is there a list of time s these meetings are happening on their website
trout-killa
8/4/2015 11:27:00 PM90% of the biomass? That's crazy. Did the trout appear to have been preying on any of them? Curious to know.
T-Bone
8/5/2015 6:40:00 AMtrout-killa, no mention by the WDFW fishery biologists of the trout having any real predator effect. One pumpkinseed sunfish female produces an unbelievable amount of eggs/fry; thus, the unreal biomass.
The meeting times are published in the newspaper and on the WDFW Website.
Randall Osbourne, WDFW Fishery Biologist is solicating comments or questions on the rehab of both lakes:
randall.osbourne@dfw.wa.gov
Both lakes need the rehab; especially Badger to rerun it to its past superb cutthroat and rainbow fisheries.
The meeting times are published in the newspaper and on the WDFW Website.
Randall Osbourne, WDFW Fishery Biologist is solicating comments or questions on the rehab of both lakes:
randall.osbourne@dfw.wa.gov
Both lakes need the rehab; especially Badger to rerun it to its past superb cutthroat and rainbow fisheries.