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[Bushbeater]

I've seen Stripers in 3 sizes.  Less than 12", 5-6# and 35#. Last 3 stockings?

[fishinwrench]

33 minutes ago, Bushbeater said:

I've seen Stripers in 3 sizes.  Less than 12", 5-6# and 35#. Last 3 stockings?

They are 12" the first year.

5 1/2 lb. at 3 years.

35 lbs at around 14 years (assuming it is a female).    

Males supposedly don't get to 40#.  (Someone with a certificate said that)  And I have no reason not to believe it, unlike some of the other FACTS being argued over. 😊

[MOPanfisher]

3 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Go ahead and fact check it.  My info came from Guido Hibdon, Virgil Conner, and a guy named Knute Paulsen (who was one of several dump truck drivers paid to haul away loads of dead fish before they started stinking up the whole town).    

Ask your favorite MDC employee if they know of ANY walleye stocking prior to that court order. The correct answer is No.  

I would almost bet that the ACE is who we need to thank for the very existence of Lost Valley hatchery.   When was Lost Valley hatchery constructed ?  

Well crap.I can't beat a dump truck driver named Knute, you win.

https://pages.wustl.edu/mnh/lost-valley-fish-hatchery

Correct it was built in 1977.

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[navery]

Siusaluki, you should just give up. I haven't joined the debate because I learned a while ago he won't admit when he speaks out of ignorance, won't admit when he is wrong and is hypocritical. Some of his retorts in this thread alone prove that. He reads or is told all his information, but then says he doesn't believe what he's told or "fed" by literature. It's not worth your time arguing with him.  You are correct, they do stock pure strain striped bass in LOZ, usually with overages once they are done stocking Bull Shoals. Him stating that there had not been a stocking for over 20 years and understands how hard natural reproduction is should tell his common sense that they have been stocked. MDC stocked them 2013, 2015 and 2017 after stocking bull shoals. I have been helping them track growth rates there. You are correct that habitat influences growth at different lakes. The ones in bull shoals are averaging 3-4 lbs a year. I have been catching them since they began stocking. There is 4 definitive weight classes there as well. 5-8 lbs, 12-16 lbs, 20-24 lbs and then the old dinosaurs that range from 26 lbs up to 60 lbs that were accidentally introduced by AGFC in 1998. 

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On 10/3/2019 at 9:59 AM, navery said:

Siusaluki, you should just give up. I haven't joined the debate because I learned a while ago he won't admit when he speaks out of ignorance, won't admit when he is wrong and is hypocritical. Some of his retorts in this thread alone prove that. He reads or is told all his information, but then says he doesn't believe what he's told or "fed" by literature. It's not worth your time arguing with him.  You are correct, they do stock pure strain striped bass in LOZ, usually with overages once they are done stocking Bull Shoals. Him stating that there had not been a stocking for over 20 years and understands how hard natural reproduction is should tell his common sense that they have been stocked. MDC stocked them 2013, 2015 and 2017 after stocking bull shoals. I have been helping them track growth rates there. You are correct that habitat influences growth at different lakes. The ones in bull shoals are averaging 3-4 lbs a year. I have been catching them since they began stocking. There is 4 definitive weight classes there as well. 5-8 lbs, 12-16 lbs, 20-24 lbs and then the old dinosaurs that range from 26 lbs up to 60 lbs that were accidentally introduced by AGFC in 1998. 

 

 

Do you happen to know how many are being stocked per year in bull shoals?  I think i read somewhere around 25,000 every other year?