Lavage findings
Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 8:31 pm
HFFA members have been weighing and measuring fish caught after monthly tournaments for the last several months. We did a lavage check during one of the weighing but results revealed little information. Few remnants of fish parts but mostly unidentifiable.
Yesterday, as my partner was bringing in his bass, the bass spit a whole bunch of shad in various stages of decomposition. there were probably close to a dozen shad that came floating out as well as what was left in the live well. This all coming from a bass weighing about 1 1/2 pounds caught in the vicinity just pass the homeless camp.
Previous lavage notes other things that have been spit out including a four inch crayfish and larger shad in the three inch range. We even had a bass spit out part of a plastic worm. Interesting that there are still crayfish in Lake Wilson unless it was a crayfish brought in from the outside. The bass that had the crayfish was caught before the Wahiawa Bridge so maybe this is a good sign that crayfish may still be a viable food source as I have not seen much crayfish except for up by the North fork rapids.
steve
Yesterday, as my partner was bringing in his bass, the bass spit a whole bunch of shad in various stages of decomposition. there were probably close to a dozen shad that came floating out as well as what was left in the live well. This all coming from a bass weighing about 1 1/2 pounds caught in the vicinity just pass the homeless camp.
Previous lavage notes other things that have been spit out including a four inch crayfish and larger shad in the three inch range. We even had a bass spit out part of a plastic worm. Interesting that there are still crayfish in Lake Wilson unless it was a crayfish brought in from the outside. The bass that had the crayfish was caught before the Wahiawa Bridge so maybe this is a good sign that crayfish may still be a viable food source as I have not seen much crayfish except for up by the North fork rapids.
steve