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| Get paid $15.00 a fish! |
Every lake trout of any size and rainbow trout more than 13 inches long harvested from Lake Pend Oreille through March, 2009, pays $15.00!
How Do I Get Involved?
Go fishing and cash in! Lake trout of any size and rainbow trout more than 13 inches long from Lake Pend Oreille count for the $15 cash reward. Rainbow trout more than 13 inches caught in Lower Clark Fork River below the railroad bridge at Clark Fork (open all year) and from Lightning Creek, Grouse Creek and Pack River between April 1 and August 31 also are eligible.
Rules For Getting Paid:
1. Only rainbow and lake trout are eligible.
2. Rainbow trout heads must be a minimum of 2 3/8 inches long from tip of nose to end of gill cover. Only whole heads with the entire jaw and throat area intact are eligible for payment.
3. Cutthroat and cutthroat hybrids are not eligible.
4. Harvesting bull trout or kokanee is illegal, and will be investigated by a conservation officer. Know how to properly identify fish.
5. Your signature is required. We cannot pay anglers if slips are not signed.
How To Check Your Fish In
1. Please clean your fish on the lake – not on the dock or the freezer!
2. Leave the head of the rainbow or lake trout in the drop-off freezer, not the whole fish. You may put multiple fish heads in one bag.
3. Ziploc bags, water-proof slips and pencils are provided at freezer locations.
4. Fill out your name, mailing address, phone number, Idaho fishing license number and date of birth on one slip for each bag. You must sign the data slip to be eligible for the cash reward.
5. Put the bag through the small hatch door in the freezer and close the door.
6. A headless carcass is legal, so long as the tail is attached, by a special exemption from the Fish and Game Commission. Normally it is not legal to have a trout, bass, salmon or steelhead (any fish with a length limit) in the field or in transit without the head attached.
Fish Head Freezer Locations
* Holiday Shores Marina - Ellisport Bay
* Hope Marine Services - Ellisport Bay
* Anchor Gas - Garfield Bay
* Hudson's Bay Marina - Bayview
* IDFG Field Research Station - Bayview
* IDFG Regional Office - Coeur d'Alene
The Lake Pend Oreille Idaho Club, which is working with Fish and Game in this effort, will mail checks to anglers twice a month. Be sure to fill out the angler information slip properly.
What's the Problem with the Fishery?
Kokanee once provided half the entire sport fishery in Lake Pend Oreille with a harvest averaging one million fish annually. They also provide forage to grow world class rainbow and bull trout. Now there aren't enough kokanee to feed all the predators in Lake Pend Oreille. Rainbow and lake trout are the most significant predators on kokanee. The kokanee fishery was closed in 2000 and limits on rainbow and lake trout were liberalized.
Unfortunately, things have become worse, not better. Survival rates on young kokanee one to two years old have reached an all time low of 10 percent (normally it's 50 to 80+ percent). Survival rates for adult fish are also declining due to increased predation. The kokanee fishery remains closed in Lake Pend Oreille. One bright spot is that good hatchery fry production from the Cabinet Gorge Kokanee Hatchery and higher winter pool levels have resulted in good numbers of kokanee fry. The kokanee population can respond if predation can be reduced quickly and significantly.
How Many Predators Need to be Harvested?
In 2006, predatory fish ate about 551,000 pounds of kokanee in Lake Pend Oreille – that’s about 109,000 pounds more than annual kokanee production. To sustain the kokanee populations, predator numbers must be reduced until kokanee consumption is in balance with production.
Surveys found about 72,000 lake and rainbow trout big enough to eat kokanee in Lake Pend Oreille in 2006. The good news is that anglers caught about 17 to 22 percent of the rainbow trout, and anglers and netters caught 44.5 percent of the lake trout.
A computer model will help determine how fast rainbow and lake trout must be removed to bring kokanee consumption into balance with production. The results will be used to set targets for predator removal.
Spaghetti Tagged Fish
Some rainbow trout have been tagged behind the dorsal fin with green spaghetti tags worth $100 when turned in to IDFG. We are no longer paying for any spaghetti tags from lake trout. Anglers should mail the spaghetti tag and information about the fish species, length, weight and date the fish was caught to:
* Greg Schoby
Idaho Department of Fish and Game
P.O. Box 806
Bayview, ID 83803
Author:
badmin :
Posted:
Mon Apr 21, 2008 1:59 pm
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| F&G determined to restore kokanee to Lake Pend Oreille |
Herb Huseland
Correspondent
April 19, 2008
Second of two parts
Not that long ago in Bayview, the bars used to be full of fishermen, quaffing a beer while discussing the day's catch. This wasn't a scene from 50 years ago, only six.
Today, rows of boat slips stand empty, waiting in vain for the kokanee fishing fleet to once more crowd Lake Pend Oreille. Chip Corsi, spokesman for Idaho Fish and Game, spoke to the economic losses: "Since the loss of the popular kokanee fishery, I would say that around $35 million would have been the economic value of the fishery," he said.
The source of the problem was in 1925, when the U.S. Fish Commission planted lake trout, a Midwestern native. The introduction was followed by planting the Gerrard strain of rainbow trout in about 1941 and mysis shrimp in the '60s.
The thinking back then was that the kokanee would feed on the shrimp, attaining record numbers and larger sizes. They did that, but not from eating shrimp.
Kokanee, a landlocked sockeye salmon, was and is the primary food fish for the larger trout and lake trout. What the shrimp did do though, is provide an enormous source of food for juvenile lake trout, or as they are know as, mackinaw. Macs will top 40 pounds or more at maturity, which can be up to 27 years old or more. With the advent of the mysis, the lake trout populations exploded, causing the predation of kokanee past their ability to reproduce in numbers large enough to survive. The lakers began to dominate the food chain to the point that kokanee are almost extinct.
Attempts have been made by the Bonneville Power Administration, the Corps of Engineers and Avista to bring back this vital source of income to the businesses around the lake. Idaho Fish and Game estimates that $19 million is the current value of the Lake Pend Oreille fishery.
Further attempts to reverse the declining kokanee population problem were addressed by Jim MacDonald in 1971. MacDonald, a former state senator, believing that a commercial fishery was counterproductive, went to Boise with the request that the commercial season be discontinued.
Fish and Game sent a biologist to examine MacDonald's claim that the harvest was larger than could be replaced by future spawning. He recommended banning the commercial taking of kokanee. Prior to that, individuals could take 100 fish per day, and commercial fishermen could take an additional 200 fish per day.
The measure passed review and became regulation, but it wasn't enough.
Currently, other measures are in force, including year-round open season on trout and mackinaw. Tributaries, such as the Clark Fork and Pack Rivers, are open to fishing for the larger species during the spawning cycle, an event unheard of in the past. Fish and Game believes that the only way the lake can come back into balance is to kill off most or all of the rainbow trout and most of the mackinaw, followed by a massive infusion of kokanee from other sources.
In addition, a bounty was set for $15 for the heads of either rainbow trout over 16 inches, or for mackinaw of any length. "Correcting the mistakes of the past isn't that easy," Corsi said. "Many fishermen oppose those methods such as opening a commercial lake trout and whitefish season, and developing a market for the fresh fish. The department is, very sensitive to the mistakes made in the past, and doesn't intend to repeat them, if at all possible."
Bayview Creek, which apparently inconvenienced so many people, was rerouted many times. It was finally killed by Boileau's Marina in 1997 when it was diverted, piped underground with its outlet way above the winter level. That stopped any fish from swimming up to spawn. Studies are under way to visit the possibility of returning this stream to productivity.
Much has been said about what happened, when it happened, and why. Fish and Game authorities are now faced with the questions: Are we "too little, too late?"
Many experts, including former Fish and Game commissioner Dick Hansen, think it might be. "Unless we can kill off 80 percent of the mackinaw in the lake, (chances of recovery) is very little. There are simply too many predators eating too few kokanee." The total spawn in the fall of 2007 was a statistical zero. Another year such as that can't be survived. "Trying to restore the kokanee is a noble cause, but useless," Hansen said. Currently, the Fish and Game has planted 20,000 egg sac stage kokanee at the scene of the Harborview mitigation last fall. An additional 6 million fry will be planted, mostly at Sullivan Springs in Granite Creek. Recent discoveries found some spawn at MacDonald's Resort, previously thought to have gone extinct. But they spawned in deeper water, apparently adapting to the rise and fall of the lake.
When asked about recovery efforts, Corsi said, "We are trying by obtaining eggs from other sources to bring them back. But eggs are scarce." But he added that "this department is not going down without a fight, and regardless of the dismal odds, we believe that we can bring the lake back, and more importantly, within our lifetime."
Author:
BayviewBob :
Posted:
Sun Apr 20, 2008 7:12 pm
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| Pancake feed benefits fireworks fund |
Herb Huseland
April 17, 2008
Saturday brings spring activities to a peak, starting in the morning with the Bayview Chamber of Commerce's huckleberry pancake breakfast at the Captain's Wheel.
This annual fund raiser, which runs from 8 a.m. to noon, helps support fireworks, as do a great many activities of the Bayview Chamber of Commerce. Families are of course, welcome. The prime money-raiser, though, is the raffle. Items such as a large gas barbecue, Silverwood and Triple Play day passes and many other donated prizes will be awarded at the breakfast.
The fireworks display is going to be improved this year by 50 percent, organizers said.
Guest dishwashers at the breakfast will be Kootenai County Sheriff Rocky Watson and County Commissioner candidate Tom Cronin.
Later that night, the Captain's Wheel will feature Zak Cooper's OZMO BOOGIE bringing hot tunes at you. Zak is a former member of Too Slim & the Taildraggers, a longtime favorite in the area.
No cover charge will be imposed, but the public is warned to come early for a good seat.
Author:
badmin :
Posted:
Thu Apr 17, 2008 6:33 am
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| New Coaster at Silverwood |
ATHOL, Idaho -- For thrill seekers, the numbers are pretty impressive. Consider them:
* A 19-story fall.
* Top speed of 65 miles-per-hour.
* Three upside loops.
That's what work crews at the Silverwood Theme Park are in the process of assembling: a new roller coaster called the "Aftershock."
The new coaster will stand 191 feet off the ground - by comparison, "Tremors," the park's existing wooden coaster built in 1999, only stands 103 feet at its highest point.
Disassembled right now, parts for the new ride required 50 truckloads to get here from Chicago. Silverwood purchased the coaster from a Six Flags theme park in Chicago.
Laid out from beginning to end the new ride has parts that extend a half mile; the equivalent of 10 football fields.
Author:
BayviewBob :
Posted:
Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:21 am
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| County now charging to use boat ramp in Bayview. |
The boat ramp in Bayview is no longer free.
Kootenai County Parks and Waterways Public Boat Launch Fees
Day Use: $4.00 Vessel Registered in Idaho
$8.00 Vessel Registered out of State
Annual: $20.00 Vessel Registered in Idaho
$40.00 Vessel Registered out of State
Instructions
1. Complete information on the fee envelope.
2.Tear of tab. Place on dash of vehicle so it can be easily read from outside.
3. Deposit fee in envelope (US Funds-cash or check only). Seal and place in tube depository.
4. Daily fee is valid until midnight of paid day. Annual pass fee is valid through December 31.
VISITORS FAILING TO PAY ARE SUBJECT TO CITIATION.
Author:
BayviewBob :
Posted:
Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:14 am
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MSNBC.com: KHQ-TVFire destroys Long Lake waterfront home
LONG LAKE, Wash. - While one Long Lake family was at church Sunday a fire destroyed their waterfront home in Nine Mile Falls. Deputies investigating fatal Stevens County shooting
STEVENS COUNTY, Wash. - Sheriff's deputies are investigating a fatal shooting that killed a 53-year old Stevens County man Saturday. Mother Nature gives us a Mothers' Day gift
E. Wash./N. Idaho - We got a little gift from Mother Nature Sunday morning as we saw cooler, sunnier weather. A cold front just raced across the area taking alot of rain with it. The center of the rainmaker is still north of us and could bring some rain in the afternoon. Sprinkler system helps crews contain Industrial Park fire
SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. - Fire crews, with the help of a sprinkler system, have contained a fire that broke out at Building 24 at the Spokane Industrial Park in the Valley Sunday morning. Armed duo wanted for robbery
SPOKANE, Wash. - Spokane Valley Police are looking for two black males who robbed a man at gunpoint shortly after midnight Saturday. Gray but mostly dry, for now
E. Wash./N. Idaho - Saturday will be a shade on the cloudy side, but these aren't quite rain-making clouds yet, so people hanging outside should stay dry.
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Valley firefighters put out fire at Spokane Industrial Park
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Charges dismissed against anti-police protestor
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