Patoka Stripers

[panfish]

Who is saying the resource is under utilized?

[motalot]

Indiana Department of Fish and Wildlife. They have Ceased stocking program because (it is underutilized)
I would like to campaign for restocking.

[Moose1am]

I support your efforts to get the stocking program back into operation. I thought that the stripers were put into Patoka to help control the Gizzard Shad Populations. Is there any evidence that these fish have reproduced on their own? Being hybrids I would expect not but nature sometimes has a way of doing strange things.

Saw a program the other night were a female fish changed from female to male in less than a week. Seems that most of the fish on this artificial reef were female except for one male. When the male was removed from the reef one of the female fish too over the males role on the reef and changed sex within a week. I have also read where some rivers that had high levels of female hormones dumped into the river via human waste had fish that changed sex. Nature sure does some strange things.

I saw a guy fishing at dress plaza in Evansville who had a nice striper on his stringer. There was an article in the paper last Sunday that was written about the Stripers that got into the Ohio River. Seems that KY and some other states stocked them in KY Lake and Cumberland and the migrated down the TN river and into the Ohio and from the Cumberland into the Ohio River.



Regards,

Moose1am