Quote Originally Posted by FSH4FUN View Post
i know when i was in Utah for a while it was really hard to find a place to catch Southern species like bass and bluegill, but we stumbled upon a small lake out of Vernal,Utah called PELICAN LAKE strange enough since having been born and raised in Louisiana (THE PELICAN STATE) that had bluegill and bass in it that was originally stocked in the 1950's with this species and the local cafe on the lake had a picture of what they called the lake record and it weighed 3.5 pounds? Perhaps it was never officially certified? I know as soon as the ice was off the lake you could catch 50 to 100 bass per day and then after temps warmed a little you could take a flyrod with popping bugs and catch bream that were 1#+ on a regular basis! ~~<*{{{{<< On most lakes in the West they kill off this type fish to preserve the trout population...... that had to be restocked every year, so they would spray rotenot? on the lake to kill the scaled species such as bream and bass!!! Also even though there were crawfish in some of the lakes there, it was illegal to transport them live because they love to eat the trout eggs and there was the fear that they might be accidently released into a lake that Utah Dept. of Natural Resources regularly stocked trout into??? Too bad they didn't prefer a fish that can reproduce automatically....... ~~<*{{{{<<
Whaaaaaat??