Chapman lake Kokes Revised

[Skillet]

Thank you Ridgeratt for getting this back in the public's eye! 

By the way, I would kill to see the budget that says they can produce kokanee fry for $.02 each.  I will guarantee you there are no fixed operating costs figured into that... that's like saying all of your deer and elk meat only costs you what you paid for the bullet (or arrow, if it is lost) itself. 

[goosegetter79]

" Meanwhile, only the owners of lakeside cabins have been able to get fishing boats onto the lake."


Good to know that there are only a select few able to fish for Kokanee as I am pretty sure that's the only way I've heard of catching Kokanee but they continue to stock it. Why not stop stocking it until there is access then continue stocking it and maybe shut down fishing for Kokanee until the Kokanee are fishable.

[quadrafire]

Goose
read the article in the spokesman they touch on that

[Ridgeratt]

Thank you Ridgeratt for getting this back in the public's eye! 

By the way, I would kill to see the budget that says they can produce kokanee fry for $.02 each.  I will guarantee you there are no fixed operating costs figured into that... that's like saying all of your deer and elk meat only costs you what you paid for the bullet (or arrow, if it is lost) itself.

I really didn't do much but pose a question to them.
I find it more interesting that Rich Landers replied that there was no story. Guess maybe there was!! 

I am considering perhaps going into the witness protection program. 
If I am never heard from again I might be Kokanee Food or used to feed the mythical wolves we have in this state.

I can hope that they resolve this in a timely manner.

[Skillet]

Now that $.02/fish cost makes sense. They're using pelletized rabble rousers for feed.

Been nice knowing ya!

[zike]

Maybe it would be easier to get access if the cabin owners didn't have any kokanees to fish for. Are they stocking trout there too?

[Ridgeratt]

Yes and all of the WDFW folks must work for Free.

No they have quit stocking trout since there isn't an access.

Read the news paper article.

[Alchase]

Nice work Ridgeratt!

[Oldguy]

Lake Samish near Bellingham has Kokanee fishing and property owners who don't like their lake overused. There were plans to modernize the boat launch with two ramps and a dock between. The property owners lobbied the state and got the project cut back to one ramp and no dock to keep usage down. Then the "Invasive Species" inspection was instituted with an annual fee and inspection for each launch. If the public launch, which the property owners rely on for their needs doesn't fill the bill for sportsmen, close it and cease planting fish for a private fishery. Kind of like the Nooksack elk situation; plant the elk in an area with little open land and let the road kills and eventual wolf packs take care of the problem.

[Ridgeratt]

Lake Samish near Bellingham has Kokanee fishing and property owners who don't like their lake overused. There were plans to modernize the boat launch with two ramps and a dock between. The property owners lobbied the state and got the project cut back to one ramp and no dock to keep usage down. Then the "Invasive Species" inspection was instituted with an annual fee and inspection for each launch. If the public launch, which the property owners rely on for their needs doesn't fill the bill for sportsmen, close it and cease planting fish for a private fishery. Kind of like the Nooksack elk situation; plant the elk in an area with little open land and let the road kills and eventual wolf packs take care of the problem.

Why is it their lake?  If sportsman dollars fund the planting of fish in it. I think it makes it "Our Lake"

They just happen to own property on it.  I would encourage you to not let that one get away.

[L-ofalab]

I think it would speed things up if the game dept says fishing is closed to everyone until there is sportsman access. No more privileged few. That we are paying for.

[Ridgeratt]

Even if they stopped stocking today the private parties still have a 4 year fishery. With a 10 fish daily limit and my guess is no one to do creel checks now and before .

[Ridgeratt]

I realize I keep dragging up a skeleton. But this has not been resolved yet. It was supposed to have gained a public access for this fishery and to present has not happened. After speaking to Chris Donnelly the region 1 head fisheries person in 2016. He indicated that if access was not secured they would stop planting it.

Checking the Stocking for 2018.  The WDFW planted once again 100,000 fry in this lake. 

https://wdfw.wa.gov/publications/01975/wdfw01975.pdf

I understand the cost of the fry are a minimal part. Once again the WDFW has misrepresented themselves to the Sportsman and Sportswoman of this state. This falls right in line with other parts of the department that also colors the truth.

This makes close to 3/4 of a million fish that the sportsman are unable to access since 2013.

https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/washington/114/  Still shows no access

[quadrafire]

Can it be accessed by float tube/pontoon?  If you could carry in. Seems like I remember a hiking trail on SW side?

[Ridgeratt]

Can it be accessed by float tube/pontoon?  If you could carry in. Seems like I remember a hiking trail on SW side?

That's does no good when your hoping on floating a Hewescraft.


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