I had said it for years, decades now that the Pike came from NV. No doubt in my mind. The result of some idiot transporting live fish from one water (Commins/Basset) to another(Frenchman's/Davis) as we see so often with the spread of smallmouth bass in Sierra Lakes. Idiots just love to do this shit. It is only a matter of time before some idiots moves them again.
I hope NV FINALLY does something about Commins. It was a great fishery in the late 90's I went several times and landed a 31" Rainbow there as well as many bows in the 5-7 lb range. Great midge hatches with huge midges and huge swarms of them.
After the 97 treatment I netted bluegills in Cow Creek but CADFG didn't want to hear about it. A few days later @ Mosquito I put on a new leader/tippet 4X and a #10 Bugger. It got Sliced right off. I immediately knew what it was, but tried to convince myself otherwise. But sure enough a week or so later the first pike was caught. I don't want to go through the whole Frenchmans/Davis Pike nightmare again. These pike need to go from NV and they need to go now. NV has been dragging their feet for years/decades on this. It is a major threat and I wish the state of CA or the FEDS could do something to rid the west of this threat once and for all. Until pike are gone from NV we can end up right back where we were in the early 90's with some douchebag dropping them in Frenchman's and Davis. As far as I see it with nonnative pike in NV it is just a matter of time till they get moved west into CA once again.
http://www.rgj.com/article/20100207/NEWS/100207025
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