Posted by: rattlefish
fish chucking - 12/03/05 12:42 PM
ok you fish slingers I posted this question on another post but thought it deserves a real talk.
I was fishing a river downstream of where you guys feed the bugs with old dead hatchery fish and came across 5 river otters. As I have never before seen any on the river before it got me wondering.
By providing these wonderful critters a free and easy sorce of food are we asking for trouble? In a few years are we going to be cussing at them as they try to steal the fish we fight? Will there presence on the river be the death of thousands of native smolts as soon as the feeding stops? Do they even eat fish or am I just paranoid?
What do you all think. I know we need nutrients in these rivers and we need to stop selling bug killers for green lawns so the bugs have a chance to reproduce and become food for the fish. Maybe stop all oil leaks in our cars to make it easier for the emergers to break the water surface...... all die of bird flu so the fish get a few years to recover. you know the little things we do make a difference.
I was fishing a river downstream of where you guys feed the bugs with old dead hatchery fish and came across 5 river otters. As I have never before seen any on the river before it got me wondering.
By providing these wonderful critters a free and easy sorce of food are we asking for trouble? In a few years are we going to be cussing at them as they try to steal the fish we fight? Will there presence on the river be the death of thousands of native smolts as soon as the feeding stops? Do they even eat fish or am I just paranoid?
What do you all think. I know we need nutrients in these rivers and we need to stop selling bug killers for green lawns so the bugs have a chance to reproduce and become food for the fish. Maybe stop all oil leaks in our cars to make it easier for the emergers to break the water surface...... all die of bird flu so the fish get a few years to recover. you know the little things we do make a difference.