The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

I sure as hell hope they got 'em all...I talked to a F&G warden yesterday who was on his way out to the Lake doing night patrol. He wasn't from this area so the lake was new to him.

My understanding was anything with gills or requiring oxygen in the water was toast. He said when he walked the shores on the west side of the lake after the treatment he saw a bunch of aquatic bugs swimming around the shore line. I was surprised as I thought the rotenone would really clean the lake of just about everything. When I asked him what they were he said he wasn't sure.

I think the real surprise was the number of bullheads or what I'll call catfish that were found in the lake. I heard from a friend that the percentages looked something like this; one percent trout, eight percent pike with the remaining percentage primarily bullheads.

Hopefully they will be successful and we'll get our lake back.

Pete