Hey JCC/Downwind/Arca ....
If the KDFWR wanted to kill two birds with one stone .... all they'd have to do is seine out a couple thousand of the 7-8in Black Crappie from Cedar Creek Lake --- and take'em to T-ville :eek: :p
Heck, they might even luck up and pull a few Blacknose out of Cedar Creek ... and transplant them to T-ville. Then we'd have Blacknose in Taylorsville Lake !!
I tell ya what, though ... there isn't going to be much chance for a stable & growing population of Crappie in Taylorsville Lake, as long as the dang thing floods all through the Spring spawning times, most every year. :o
... that, above everything else, is the biggest reason for the numbers decline - IMHO. There's plenty of food & shelter for them ... the Hybrids don't seem to have had any effect on them ... (though I do wonder if the big Blue Catfish may have had some impact). They should be doing much better than what I'm hearing from you guys.
... cp :cool:
Didn't know that, JCC ....
Quote:
Originally Posted by
JCCLARK
I've said the same thing about Jericho lake, I wish they could take some of
the little crappie out of there for T'ville. It's over-run with em'.
I hear the high number of shad really hurt the crappie spawn, the shad
hatch out first and eat everything that the newly hatched need, the
mico-organisims and such. The lake is sooooo over run with shad.
there have been other smaller lakes like Beaver where they were
rid of the shad and it really helped-a lot! Made a huge difference.
Then there's the pollution level at T'ville, the worst of any body of water
in the state. Lot's of water samples showing E-coli and many others.
I guess that's why there's no plant growth in the lake, ever notice?.
T'ville has even had bass stocked before because of falling numbers.
It's not just crappie. The lake is not good for fish, even before it was opened
there was talk of the pollution problems it was going to have.
Salt River has human waste in it from upstream.
Other lakes have levels up and down way more than T'ville and don't have
the problem.
You never see any E-coli warnings, concerning T-ville. Now I have seen them posted for the KY River, usually around the Boonesborough area. And Herrington Lake goes up and down quite a bit, and has a serious Shad population ... and I can guarantee you it gets animal/human waste in large quantities.
Not saying that you're wrong in your assessment ... but, I think T-ville's biggest problem is more of the Spring flooding, than a Shad or waste problem. The Crappie were thin & stunted for years, until the Shad population exploded. The lake is no longer a young lake, either ... so the dynamics have changed a bit. May be that we just need to rethink our approach :confused:
Unless things have changed drastically over the last several years ... the Crappie spawns were usually around the first to second week of May, and the Shad didn't begin until mid May or later .... followed closely by the Bass. There never was any weed growth, even after the KDFWR made several efforts to plant water weeds. It "might" have a chance at holding some water weeds, if it weren't for the constant water level changes. But, with all the wood in that lake ... I'm not sure weeds are all that necessary.
I'm just basing my assumptions on this :
http://www.lrl.usace.army.mil/wc/res...ts/gif/tvl.jpg
As this chart plainly shows .... the lake fluctuations occur at the most inopportune times ;) The lake is normally only stable during the Summer months. The rapid rise/fall of the water levels seems to be the overbearing culprit, in making the lake tough to fish. Can't be all that good for the fish, either.
This is just my opinion & speculation, and I could be wrong (I have been before :p ).
... cp :cool: