Holdover Trout fishery basically dead at DVL?
I remember reading a few years back and seeing pics of beautiful holdovers caught at DVL. Aside from the stockings is trout fishing a worthy endeavor? I rarely read anything about it on this site for sure. Then again, there's not many of any kind on FN like there used to be.
We tried pretty hard last year for the trout and had ZERO Luck! Their is better lakes then this one for trout, but don't let me steer you away! Lol Let me give it to you straight. In many close cheap fishing lakes, you have to deal with the Land sharks! (what's a Land shark?) A Land shark is someone who gimmicks the system so they get an disproportion amount of fish for themselves. (they are willing to do a lot to get it!) If you wanted to keep up with the Land sharks at DVL here's what you would have to do! Find the day they stock and get in line 12 hours before they open the following day. (you must get one of the few coveted spots) You must also be willing to snag your fish if necessary! You must also be willing to go into combat mode and fight the other anglers while chasing the schools around! If you are willing to do all that? You too can get your picture taken with a bunch of fish after they stock! If not, you are just re lying on pure luck to find them! Good Luck with that! LolOriginally Posted by IE fisherman
Last edited by etucker1959; 11-07-2019 at 11:17 PM.
And generally a land shark is either someone out of work or a 22 year old kid who has time to get out there and wait in line 12 hours before opening on a week day with no job to report to or wife to answer to. In my younger day I was a stock chaser, but targeting the big bass and stripers. Did it for a few years and each year was consistently bring a different shore trout chasing crew as old crews either got jobs or married off and were replaced by new crews,,...
Last edited by HuskerRod; 11-11-2019 at 05:05 PM.
Every lake the Land sharks are a little different. I ran into many older people too, who were definitely Land sharks. They don't spend the night in front of the lake waiting for it to open. But they more or the less find away to dominant the fishing scene by one way or the other. I now make it a policy not to write reports about lakes that are filled with Land sharks. It's not fair to write a glowing report about something and then give a caveat. Sorry you family people, the lake is so infested with Land sharks, you are just wasting your time to try to repeat my success.
[QUOTE=etucker1959;802309]Every lake the Land sharks are a little different. I ran into many older people too, who were definitely Land sharks. They don't spend the night in front of the lake waiting for it to open. But they more or the less find away to dominant the fishing scene by one way or the other. I now make it a policy not to write reports about lakes that are filled with Land sharks. It's not fair to write a glowing report about something and then give a caveat. Sorry you family people, the lake is so infested with Land sharks, you are just wasting your time to try to repeat my success.[/QUOTE
I don't fish any of the "land shark "bucket brigade" infested pay lakes much. BCK IN THE DAY I use to go to Corona lake, but the lake was so crowded during the trout season you could jump from boat to boat to get across the lake, back again, and around again. I did notice a lot of the "hero" pics in the tackle shop were the same guys....stringers of anything and everything and a lot of them. It was sort of feast or famine out there. Regular joys WOULD CATCH 95% WHILE newbies stood around and watched in awe as the pros snagged,,ahh...I mean caught hordes of fish.
Lies.
You were the Secretary General of the BBC back in the day.
You got demoted to Private after you rigged the DFG stocker trucks with secret GPS chips so we would know where they were at any moment, which got all of us implicated after you sought immunity in court to testify against us.
I hear Skyler is still in Supermax serving 5 to 10.
...oh and watch your back out there. I remember at DVL back in the day you stood at the point by the marina and casted towards the dock. Used to be a sheriff who parked at the top of the hill and frowned upon that sort of thing and wasn't afraid to write tickets. If he wasn't there you did it and took your chances. Closer to the dock the better, but watch your 3, 6, and 9. You might have three guys surrounding you doing the same thing if you catch anything at all. They just move closer and closer as they measure whether or not youll give in or resist. Give in and you might as well plan on being hip to hip, shoulder to shoulder. Resist and plan on being...hip to hip, shoulder to shoulder.....cant win!!!!
The things I saw while working at the lakes back in the 90's........... its a good thing we did not have camera phones back then.
Yeah those hold over trout were pretty cool, caught a few myself, they even had a couple of guys who ran guide Trips to target then.
Everyone blames the influx of stripper for the decline of those beautiful trout.
Cya Tuna Vic
Yes...the holdover potential for trout is gone due to there being insufficient to no oxygen below the thermocline in the cooler water trout need to survive during the warmer water periods of the year. The absence of oxygen is due to decomposition (which uses up oxygen) of the terrestrial brush and algal bloom die off that sinks into the depths below the thermocline. The water stuck below the thermocline during stratification cannot mix with oxygenated water above until the surface waters cool during turnover...but that only lasts about a month or two until the lake begins to stratify again.
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