Stripers eating fingerlings on the hooch!

phlyster · 08-03-99, 11:45 PM

Chattahoochee below Morgan Falls Dam there are stripers, big stripers, and stripers eat trout, and the smaller, the more. The DNR continues to stock the river down there with fingerings, I'm sure the stripers feast on the trout. So what's the take on the stripers? Are there any studies, or something to clean them out being done? Are they a real threat, and could the DNR stock big fish down there, as a hope the the stripers won't harm them, because of course they would be too big to mess with? I think that if the DNR stops wasting the fingerlings, that there would be a significant raise in numbers of stockable trout, therefor, there would be more fish to utilize, and more larger fish, which oughta make anglers happy!

What's the take on this?

Drifter · 08-03-99, 11:54 PM

phylster,

My two centavos......

1. Water is generally to warm below MF to sustain trout year round.

2. MF is stocked with trout to slow developement near "trout water."

3. Fingerling trout are cheaper to stock than 8 inch fish.

'Course there is more to it than this but here you have it in the proverbial nutshell.

Drifter

Kent · 08-04-99, 09:23 AM

"if you can't be with the one you love,
....love the one you're with."

`Sounds like time for a rainbow-colored clouser!!!

Hooker · 08-04-99, 09:34 PM

Clean them out?

Phlyster, let me take you striper fishing sometime, and you'll be trying to figure out how to stock them above Morgan Falls.

phlyster · 08-04-99, 09:57 PM

Hooker, I don't know if I could talk my dad into going!

Besides I would rather go trout fishing with ya, and Dad would like it, too!

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Switch to Linear Mode Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode

08-03-99, 11:45 PM	#1
phlyster Native Join Date: Jun 1999 Posts: 1,876 Blog Entries: 9	Chattahoochee below Morgan Falls Dam there are stripers, big stripers, and stripers eat trout, and the smaller, the more. The DNR continues to stock the river down there with fingerings, I'm sure the stripers feast on the trout. So what's the take on the stripers? Are there any studies, or something to clean them out being done? Are they a real threat, and could the DNR stock big fish down there, as a hope the the stripers won't harm them, because of course they would be too big to mess with? I think that if the DNR stops wasting the fingerlings, that there would be a significant raise in numbers of stockable trout, therefor, there would be more fish to utilize, and more larger fish, which oughta make anglers happy! What's the take on this?

08-03-99, 11:54 PM	#2
Drifter Former Director, HOF Join Date: Dec 1998 Location: Newnan, GA and on the banks of the Tuck Posts: 5,843	phylster, My two centavos...... 1. Water is generally to warm below MF to sustain trout year round. 2. MF is stocked with trout to slow developement near "trout water." 3. Fingerling trout are cheaper to stock than 8 inch fish. 'Course there is more to it than this but here you have it in the proverbial nutshell. Drifter

08-04-99, 09:23 AM	#3
Kent Hall of Fame Member Join Date: Sep 1998 Location: LaGrange, GA Posts: 1,489	"if you can't be with the one you love, ....love the one you're with." `Sounds like time for a rainbow-colored clouser!!!

08-04-99, 09:34 PM	#4
Hooker Hall of Fame Member Join Date: Sep 1998 Location: Loganville, Georgia USA Posts: 872	Clean them out? Phlyster, let me take you striper fishing sometime, and you'll be trying to figure out how to stock them above Morgan Falls.

08-04-99, 09:57 PM	#5
phlyster Native Join Date: Jun 1999 Posts: 1,876 Blog Entries: 9	Hooker, I don't know if I could talk my dad into going! Besides I would rather go trout fishing with ya, and Dad would like it, too!