Rapid River article

"Dave LaCourse" wrote in message
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wayno writes:

i'm sorry, but anyone who has ever caught a smallie the same length as
a trout or landlocked salmon will tell you that he *loves* to catch
smallmouth bass. what's the big deal?

I can't believe you don't know. Bass are a warm water fish and will eat a
fishery to death of all its trout/salman. The Rapid *was* a cold water
fishery
without bass. They were illegally introduced to Umbagog in the mid 80s.
Maine
has a problem with Bubbuhs who think that bass and pike are more important
than
the native fish. Nothing wrong with fishing for bass using any rig you
want,
but there is a problem when you try to protect one of the greatest Brook
Trout
streams in the country and some asshole introduces bass. You have your
unspoiled Hazel. I have my Rapid which is quickly becoming spoiled.
Imagine
bass and pike in Hazel eating all those rainbows and browns. Would you
stand
for it? Fish for the bass instead?
Dave

Why wouldn't coldwater fish in a coldwater environment outcompete warmwater
species? I thought bass simply wouldn't spawn below certain temperatures. (A
friend told me about a tailwater converted to trout habitat by year-round
coldwater release. There, the bass simply disappeared over the course of ten
years or so.

If the water's warm enough for smallmouths to spawn successfully year after
year, the place will have to be dosed with rotenone. There's scads of little
bass wating to grow up per catchable size fish.