"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:15:01 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

But like Captain Ahab or perhaps Wile E. Coyote, the state has not let
a little adversity stop it.

This is the best line in the article.

And here's the real reason for the poisoning.

"After the poisoning is complete - and all the dead fish are scooped
out of the water - the lake will be tested for toxicity, and will
remain closed for two months, Mr. Martarano said. After that,
restocking will begin, with a goal of one million trout in Lake Davis
by 2010."

I've fired off a letter to Trout Unlimited to see if they are involved
with this in any way. I give them a fair amount of money every year
and this better not have been on the national agenda.

We tried to kill off the Northern Pike a few years ago, and either did not
dump enough poison into the lake or go far enough up the feeder streams, or
some asshole restocked the lake with NP. The danger is if they get out of
the lake, and they have an electrical fence and chooper upper barrier, the
pike get into the Sacramento River system and decimate the salmon runs.
Costing the state billions of bucks. There is at least one river system in
Alaska where some selfish ******* stocked the pike. There are no salmon
runs in the rivers anymore. You want to fish for pike, go where they are
native. Lake Davis was a trophy trout lake for many years until the pike
were introduced. The region survives on fishing tourism. So the state has
to restock the lake after killing all the fish. Has nothing to do with just
having trout in there. Is the danger of a collapse of the salmon fishery in
California.