#1554608 - 01/19/1403:37 PM
Re: DEEP aware of zebra mussels in Candlewood??
[Re: CWood Man]
Eric the Red
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Registered: 05/29/05
Posts: 2304
Loc: Bridgewater
Originally Posted By: CWood Man
So it looks like they are getting sucked up from the Housy. Vary few Pike do though, years back we caught a 39 incher by the dam, and there has maybe been 2 or 3 other cases I know. Candlewood used to be THE BEST pikeral lake in the state. We would troll for trout and hammer them and always caught a mess on tip ups. The deep draw downs ended that and now there are basically none.
Nail on the head Chris. I used to catch loads of pickerel when I was a kid, but the drawdowns hurt their spawning. Never crossed paths with pike very much there.
#1554620 - 01/19/1404:33 PM
Re: DEEP aware of zebra mussels in Candlewood??
[Re: stripervitis]
Flipper
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Registered: 07/01/02
Posts: 863
Loc: Brookfield
Originally Posted By: stripervitis
A year of clear water...hey this is great, Hey, where'd the alewives go? , Gee, the smallies seem small, where'r the bigguns? Maybe we'll get the put-take trout fishery back and have a giant Mt Tom...that'd be swell.
That about sums it up. Candlewood is a very different dynamic from Champlain and the Great Lakes. Twin was decimated, not good at all.
Grass carp and reducing the tops of milfoil beds has no affect on the herring and bass populations. In Ball Pond milfoil bio-mass was reduced 90% by the grass carp with 50% of that reduction replaced by native plants and the herring, bass and trout populations all did great. On the other hand, zebra mussels compete with herring for zoo plankton so any population of zebra mussels will decrease the available zoo plankton that herring have to eat and impact herring recruitment. That is what happened at East Twin. The cycle was: 1. Lots of kokanee salmon and zoo plankton 2. Herring arrived, kokanee populations fell. 3. Zebra mussels arrived, herring populations fell. 4. Brown Trout suffered, were skinny, never got fat like footballs anymore. 5. Zoo Plankton crashed, herring died off, zebra mussels suffered. 6. Kokanee started to make a comeback. There are only so many zoo plankton to go around. As zebra mussels increase, herring populations will decrease and that will negatively impact bass, trout, perch, etc.
#1555143 - 01/22/1409:13 AM
Re: DEEP aware of zebra mussels in Candlewood??
[Re: milfoil]
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Milfoil, thanks for posting.
I emailed the thread up the chain of command and to the Candlewood Lake Authority. They went out yesterday...in the snow....to check as they are that concerned about protecting Candlewood.
The good news is that they were not Zebra Mussels, rather, they were Asian Clams. All the research so far says that the calcium level in the Candlewood water will not support Zebra Mussels.
Here's a couple photos:
Asian clams found at the location Milfoil described
Here's a graphic showing native mussels, Asian Clams and Zebra Mussels for ID/size comparison
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#1555164 - 01/22/1411:41 AM
Re: DEEP aware of zebra mussels in Candlewood??
[Re: O-BASS]
Paul D.
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Registered: 04/15/02
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Loc: South Central, CT
Great follow up from the DEEP and lake authority .
They should both be commended for their swift and decisive actions and reporting back of the facts.
In this day and age the "normal " course of action is to hem haw, gather input, have meeting to discuss if there is an issue , do studies, have more meetings , pass the blame and let the problem grow out of control then beg for large amounts of money to fix it.
If the lake authority is an elected committee, you local folks should let them know you appreciate their operational methods and actions.
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