TU asks for Help on Dawt Mill Dam

[BilletHead]

  Me too Wrench,

   Might not be too popular for some of us thinking that way though. Trout non native/striper non native flip a coin and let the strongest survive I suppose.

BilletHead

[fishinwrench]

45 minutes ago, BilletHead said:

  Me too Wrench,

   Might not be too popular for some of us thinking that way though. 

All it takes is one time tangling with a hot temperate bass.....And they'll be trading those 4's and 5's for 7's and 8's real quick.  ?

[rps]

You have to remember the Arkansas record striper that Jeff Fletcher caught had migrated down from Beaver and was feeding on the rainbows below the Beaver dam. My largest walleye came from the flats just below the trout water.

[BilletHead]

10 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

All it takes is one time tangling with a hot temperate bass.....And they'll be trading those 4's and 5's for 7's and 8's real quick.  ?

      My, my yes for sure. Even a ten to chuck those meaty flies.

8 minutes ago, rps said:

You have to remember the Arkansas record striper that Jeff Fletcher caught had migrated down from Beaver and was feeding on the rainbows below the Beaver dam. My largest walleye came from the flats just below the trout water.

        Trout is just another word for shad A very expensive stocked bait in places . Yes I know NFOW are stream bread rainbows.  Actually like most on here I like trout also. So I would like both to make it. For us to catch and stripers to feast on making them giants,

BilletHead

[fishinwrench]

A striper is going to have a much easier life cruising the lake and gulping shad than he is chasing down rainbows in the river.   I don't expect the trout population will take too hard of a hit.  

[BilletHead]

7 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

A striper is going to have a much easier life cruising the lake and gulping shad than he is chasing down rainbows in the river.   I don't expect the trout population will take too hard of a hit.  

     Yes but tell that to some. Remember how freaked out folks got when not too many years ago some of those striped fish got stuck in the trout holes up river? I remember and everyone was concerned and wanted them killed out. Catch and release for trout and catch and kill for stripers . Temperate lives matter!

  BilletHead

[fishinwrench]

Oh no doubt they'll eat some. And for some folks ONE is too many. 

[Johnsfolly]

Just means that Billethead will have to tie articulated baits in a rainbow trout pattern to fish the striper spawn. You know that the large brown trout in the river are already eating rainbows.

[Okiedog]

just so people know.. that person that died was a 13 year old girl who was trapped in the turbulence created by the hole in the darn, created from the flood around 15'. my daughter went to school with her. 

That little girl, yes she was small for her age,  swam out to help someone else that was trapped in it and in the course of trying to HELP ANOTHER PERSON, died in the process. A full grown man was pulling on her as hard as he could and couldnt budge the poor girl. The hole should have been fixed or the darn tore out once the hole was created. A quick look and one cold see that it was dangerous, and right next to a swimming hole, and canoers would get in trouble there every day. Pretty crappy for people on here to just willy-nilly throw rocks at the situation.

Someones child died there. 

[tjm]

Not to take away from the value of that child, but,

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According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, between 2006 and 2010 a total of 303 children under age 5 years old drown in just bathtubs

You may not realize this , but every single person that ever died was someone's child. It turns out that death is part of life, it will happen to us all.