waterwolf Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 wow!! the higher-ups in charge of the welfare of valens conservation area have wonderfully decided that this little gem should receive some much over-due protection. even a very healthy eco- system has it's defining limits when realizing it's sustaining potentials. smaller reservoirs are very vulnerable to specific fishing pressures and practises so they must be intimately understood. Valens has now been classified as a catch and relelease [C&R] conservation area. all species in the lake are under the same protection. WTG!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joonmoon Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 Bout time...stay tuned for reports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pikehunter Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 It'sabout time! I hadn't been there since a teenager in the early 70's when it was a stocked bass paradise. Tried it twice a few years ago and nothing. But I did see a park owned rented boat overloaded with an entire family keeping every fish they could find, didn't matter how small the fish were, even little fingerlings found a home in an overloaded mesh bag! It was a sad sight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jediangler Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 This will keep the hoards of panfish eaters away for this season. I don't know how many full white buckets I've seen at the boat launch over the years. My daughter caught her first fish at Valens, so it is a special place for our family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmeh Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 That is good news. Maybe they can pass this message onto some of the other smaller CA's around. I'm really hoping Mountsberg will wake up one day and implement something like this before the meathunters completely empty it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danbouck Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 They have been talking about it for years. Last year they completely closed ice fishing to let the fish "rest". I found that out 1 day after I bought my season pass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunkerbasshunter Posted January 3, 2010 Report Share Posted January 3, 2010 im really happy to hear this, when i was a teenager I used to go to valens and catch a ton of fish, fast forward 15 years it is a fraction of the qualitly it once was. (my opionion anyway) I hope they can restore this fishery so it can become a nice little gem like it was 15 or 20 years ago Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucktail Posted January 3, 2010 Report Share Posted January 3, 2010 Wouldnt it be nice if a trophy crappie and bass fishery developed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfish1965 Posted January 3, 2010 Report Share Posted January 3, 2010 I hope they make it barbless only too then. Otherwise it won't be as successful as it could be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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