Rochester reservior

Went out to a reservoir last night looking for bulls and we put hammer down on them. We iced about 40 of them in 22fow. 8 to 10 incher. Waxes where the ticket. Good luck

PUT THE HAMMER DOWN!!!!!

Where is the Rochester reservior?

wish I could say more, but I dont to get into an argument about reservior fishing here.

Where the pics? What kinds of hooks? All day or low lite??

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wish I could say more, but I dont to get into an argument about reservior fishing here.

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Amen, Jeff.

So whats your argument about reservior fishing??????

I dont want to get into it here ,I DONT and NEVER have/will fish them,so lets just leave at that.

Sure would like to hear more on this, guess I have missed something. Any place to fish seems better to me than not fishin. No arguments only looking for information

There should be some clarification on this. Some reservoirs are OK to fish and some are not…correct? Don’t ask me which reservoirs are not OK to fish as I haven’t followed the issue for some time but there are several reservoirs around Rochester that are fair game, right? For instance, Bear Creek Reservoir (Chester Woods) is non-controversial.

Thanks for the info (if any)!
Chris

Its more of a “harvest” issue than and “can I fish it?” issue. There’s been a lot of spilled coffee over the subject and people don’t seem to learn from whats been said already. Anything said now will just be harping, so……… My take is that when the fish are gone, they’re gone. The dnr does not have plans for stocking these puddles. Its not angler over-load, its anglers willing to take limits when a few would feed them nicely.

Restriction are inplace at Chester and they work well in helping to preserve the fishery. Willow and the scout camp are seeing the effects of this mentality now. KR7 had some great perching, but we know where they went after a newspaper article.

The fish in Silver Creek are residuals left over from the illegals who fished this place before it was a bona-fide, open-to-the-public fishing site, so whats left there is a moot issue.

All of the Rochester reservoirs are fragile fisheries in my opinion, except for maybe Chester and Cascade Lakes complex. All of them should have size restriction and smaller limits for keeping fish. Its already been proven that some anglers cannot be depended on to help this sort of fishery to maintain itself. Whats written here is read by many….lots and lots of which are registered and don’t contribute squat to the site for good information. And many of those persons are , how should I put it, “over users?” of these small resources.

Jeff has a pretty good handle on what is happening with these places and, like Jeff, I seldom use them. His responce was spot on and I am only trying to fill in some blanks…..but its darned hard to do it with a clear voice. I’m not sure but maybe it was the “icing” of X number of fish that got his responce. Does “icing mean that that many fish were kept or simply caught and released. Perception here means a great deal.

Thats why it is so very important to release most of the fish cause when they are gone they are gone. We don’t want to lose bodies of water for fishing due to no more fish.

He didn’t exactly say he took them all home so lets hope he didn’t and if he did then lets hope he only keeps a few next time if any. Not everyone is aware or realizes that these are non-stocked bodies of water. But with sharing we can inform more people about them not being stocked so we all know we must be VERY carefull about keeping fish.
Thanks, Bill

Catch & Release

Good man.

Ah, now I understand. It has been a long time since I have visited the forums, even longer than it’s been since I’ve been fishing (July 4th ). The last I remember the issue was which reservoirs people were accessing and how they were accessing them. It saddens me to hear now there is now more of an issue on over-harvest. And since I haven’t given my two cents yet, I’m going to comment.

I can’t say that fishing pressure around the area is a new idea to me because I do remember talks of kr7 and how the perch catches kept getting smaller and smaller. It doesn’t take an educated person or fishery studies to deduce what was happening after the hype. I also remember hearing various exceptionally large fish stories and claims about the quality of Silver Creek before there was a bonafide access to the impoundment. Now the grandeur of the stories of visits to that fishing site is missing for some reason?

It is sad if we cannot educate the masses about responsible harvest. It is sadder if a “sportsman’s” ignorance requires education in responsible management of small and fragile resources. And it is most sad to me if education falls on deaf ears and a resource is ruined because of selfishness – a situation that is difficult to influence.

People wonder why others are so secretive about presentations that are working or productive bodies of water? The writing is on the wall – among other mediums. It is not safe, from a true sportsman’s point-of-view, to disclose such information. People are abusing information and that is sad.

Some people may say “well if the rulebook says it’s OK to take a limit, it is OK.” — Just because the law says you can take a certain number of fish doesn’t mean it is right to do so. Each and every one of us needs to be a good steward for Mother Nature’s angling resources so that present and future generations can enjoy the sport of fishing – and in the capacity that we are/were able to. It takes a long time to repair a fragile resource like the reservoirs around Rochester.

I will have a new daughter, probably in less than a month. I can’t wait to take her fishing and help her become a better fisherperson than me…not that it will take much to accomplish that . But it’s sad to think that when she is older, and has the mechanics of fishing down, she might not have the same opportunities to catch the size and quantity of fish that make fishing especially exciting. That caliber of game needs to be fostered by the true sportsmen using our resources.

Please take care of what we have so everyone can enjoy.

Chris

It has been a while, hasn’t it? Great follow-up!

And hey….congrats on the up-coming addition to the family. Let us know when the event occurs….until then we’ll keep all of you in the prayers for everything to be perfect.

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All of the Rochester reservoirs are fragile fisheries in my opinion, except for maybe Chester and Cascade Lakes complex. All of them should have size restriction and smaller limits for keeping fish. Its already been proven that some anglers cannot be depended on to help this sort of fishery to maintain itself. Whats written here is read by many….lots and lots of which are registered and don’t contribute squat to the site for good information. And many of those persons are , how should I put it, “over users?” of these small resources.

Jeff has a pretty good handle on what is happening with these places and, like Jeff, I seldom use them. His responce was spot on and I am only trying to fill in some blanks…..but its darned hard to do it with a clear voice. I’m not sure but maybe it was the “icing” of X number of fish that got his responce. Does “icing mean that that many fish were kept or simply caught and released. Perception here means a great deal.

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Tom

As a father of 2 little ones I was happy as all hell when these resivoirs come about in Rochester, I thought finally a place with little or no travel to take my kids. Kids need a “quick action bite” with thier patient levels low but as my kids got to the age where they could go icefishing all I read was how these resivoirs were nothing but “littlefish” ponds and the fish were few and far inbetween and IMHO these are nolonger or ever will again the fisheries they once were.

MY KIDS LOSE OUT

Tom and Bill both made some very valid points , we need to take care of what we have while we still have it.

YES we can take a meal,but a very selective harvest is a must in all fisheries.Many adays I have gone fishing and NOT brought anything home.

My intentions were not to dismay anyone here or there but just to make ALL aware that we need these fisheries for tommorow generations too.

I hope all concernd here understand more what I was trying “not” to talk about now.

Great follow up CatchnRelease

Keep your rods bending…..

Jeff

Gotta catch ’em to release ’em…..

Seriously..I CNR 99.5% of ALL fish when I am fishing..I don’t take any joy out of eating fish often, and when I do, I love it…but that’s maybe a couple times a year…

I would much rather save the fish for my kids (and yours) to catch

Im with big D and all of you! I catch a fair number of fish every year and may keep less that five. Thats seems high since I cant remember the last one I kept. I just hope my cpr helps balance out some of the few who do overharvest. Heres to our kids hooking some fishlips.