There are both Threadfin and American Shad in Silverwood in addition to silverside, prickly sculpin, bigscale logperch, shimofuri goby, freshwater shrimp, tule perch, wakasagi and crayfish. No need to plant any forage there.
The SMB in Castaic came from water transfer between Pyramid and Castaic and have taken advantage of the extreme water fluctuations and abundant goby population in Castaic over the last 5 years. Anything upstream eventually ends up downstream.
That's a copout.
For the last ten years (since I've been counting) the resident gypsies have been dumping their bedpans into the lake. The Korean harvesters at Pyramid have been doing the same. Have you gauged their impact on the thermocline and euphoric properties?
It's funny, I hadn't heard about thermoclines since squid class. seems they take it more serious than the DFG......
I think we all know how the smallies got in Castaic. But recreational boats are to blame for quaggas getting transferred? What a joke- Keep up the crappy inspections while you pump the quaggas into the lake, thanks bureaucracy! I did see a few shad (or maybe silversides?) at Silverwood last weekend, just those little groups of them. But they can bounce back in a big way, everything is cyclical. Hoping for another wet winter to contribute to another great couple of years of fishing. I do understand why the water districts want to hold off the inevitable, but they won't be able to keep out the mussels with inspections. Hopefully they'll get into Casitas and Cachuma soon to end the clown show. Miss those lakes a lot.
Last edited by Brent; 09-24-2017 at 12:17 PM.
Now Kwin you have to admit the shad population has taken a dramatic hit and a half at Silverwood. I in no way believe they are eliminated that would be impossible they can still come in via the aqueduct but the days of big open water boil fishing at Silverwood have gone by the wayside. Any locals you speak with will I believe have the same opinion (at least everybody I've talked to has). Not picking on you and certainly don't think shad will be stocked it's more of a joke these days than anything. I know you've been harassed about this subject and I am a realist so I'll take brown trout instead of shad, deal?
It's been many years now since an abundant shad spawn has occurred. I believe in the cyclical bait fish deal also and am trying to be patient waiting for the good old days of 3-5 pound schoolies smashing the surface on shad but it's been many years now. Hope all are correct and we have a return of the shad.
Lot's of larval fish seen over by the docks, who knows maybe they are shad. This seems to be a down year for silversides also and I definitely think that is just a down cycle, don't even think the stripers could kill off the millions of silversides.