Why are bass put into golf ponds, quarries and water districts?

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On 10/16/2019 at 1:36 PM, WRB said:

Not every body of water big enough to have a bass population in California has bass in it.

The State stocks mosquito fish to control mosquitos. Private owners stock a balance of forage fish that may include bass. New public reservoirs built in California usually consider recreational fishing as part of the renenue to operate the lake and that includes stocking fish popular with angling public; Bluegill, crappie, threadfin Shad for forage, channel catfish, bass, rainbow trout and crayfish for forage. Largemouth bass were stocked only during the initial flooding of a new lake, after that the bass are on thier own to sustain a population through State fishing regulations. Rainbow trout are the only fish raised in hatcheries in California for restocking.

With today's non native fish programs bass may not be allowed to be stocked in new reserviors by the State.

We have several city lakes closed to public fishing with bass populations planted by the DFG when those reseviors were constructed as a matter of state wide policy. A few mayors had enough clout to have trout stocked for a selected few cronies to catch.

Tom

 

New public reservoirs in California - never heard of em  Well "New" Malones was new 40 years ago.