id say 4 to 5.5 pounds. I'm sure Colby will have a better idea of its weight though.
Due to our permit we are not allowed to take native fish. That leaves non-natives. We can't take small fish (under 150mm or so) as they're too small to sample. We can't take huge fish (over 600mm aka carp) as we can't fit them in the cooler. That leaves semi-large, non-native fish. So far on the whole Willamette, we've taken a total of three largemouth, a couple pumpkin seed, a crappie, and a few bluegill. We will take smallmouth when (if) we catch more of them.
A largemouth that was vouchered previously in a rock quarry I was told today was 15-20 years old.
For our electrofishing we do not sample a whole slough, we sample three 200m reaches and this particular slough is miles long - so there is no way that we catch anywhere near 100% of the fish available. We have released probably 200 largemouth alive to date - trust me the populations are more than fine.
This slough and the slough we're sampling tomorrow are downstream of the Wheatland Ferry.
The largest smallmouth so far I think was around 450mm, a bit smaller than this largemouth. It came right at the Santiam confluence if I recall correctly.
Personally, I don't enjoy euthanizing any fish, but it comes with the job. These fish can and will tell us very important things about our river systems. If I can get info about the parasites and age of the fish I'll be sure to post it.
Due to our permit we are not allowed to take native fish. That leaves non-natives. We can't take small fish (under 150mm or so) as they're too small to sample. We can't take huge fish (over 600mm aka carp) as we can't fit them in the cooler. That leaves semi-large, non-native fish. So far on the whole Willamette, we've taken a total of three largemouth, a couple pumpkin seed, a crappie, and a few bluegill. We will take smallmouth when (if) we catch more of them.
A largemouth that was vouchered previously in a rock quarry I was told today was 15-20 years old.
For our electrofishing we do not sample a whole slough, we sample three 200m reaches and this particular slough is miles long - so there is no way that we catch anywhere near 100% of the fish available. We have released probably 200 largemouth alive to date - trust me the populations are more than fine.
This slough and the slough we're sampling tomorrow are downstream of the Wheatland Ferry.
The largest smallmouth so far I think was around 450mm, a bit smaller than this largemouth. It came right at the Santiam confluence if I recall correctly.
Personally, I don't enjoy euthanizing any fish, but it comes with the job. These fish can and will tell us very important things about our river systems. If I can get info about the parasites and age of the fish I'll be sure to post it.
PS I accidentally clicked edit post when I meant to reply Modest_Man, my bad nothing was changed.
I probably do it all the time and don't notice :lol:I do that all the time lol
I probably do it all the time and don't notice :lol:
If you ever find out some stat's on that old bass I would like to hear them, not that often tests are taken on bass that old. If it was under 600mm it likely wasn't over 8lbs assuming its a typical frame shape, witch is pretty suprising considering how slow the growth rate may be wonder what the gender was.