Goby - Food vs Predator

[TimJ]

thanks Adam

[balsabaiter]

That is a really great picture Boone!  Inspiring!  ...now where's my "goby-green" Createx...ha hee...

[Lucky Craft Man]

Hmm...I have heard several things on this topic. The most recent I heard was that indeed that Gobies are feeding on Smallmouth nests and fry, but the added nutrition the smallmouth receive from having a great protein source in the goby has allowed them to produce more and healthier eggs and more smallmouth are "strong" enough to spawn. Essentially, the ecosystem is balancing itself out. I don't know if this is true or not, but it sounds good to me. Also, people say that small smallmouth are not being caught. I can tell you this is wrong. I catch a lot of smaller fish (1 to 3 pound range) when I am out there. I wish every fish was a 5 pound plus, but this isn't the case.

[Eternal Angler]

No kidding, never heard that about Salmon. That sucks!

before the gobies were made illegal to possess in Ontario, I would take my sons fishing at the Detroit River and catch a few dozen or more gobies the night before going for SM on StClair. we used the gobies on c-rigs and the SM killed them...no light hitting...they just KILLED them!

TJ

Sorry to be brash but that is flat out irresponsible.

"Sportsmen" need to take management issues more seriously and not just view them as an inconvenience.

Many management problems could have been prevented by responsible actions or sportsmen.

Sure smallmouth are getting big eating them. But what about the population of other fish, and other forage.

Great Lakes Salmon are a great example of the necessity to have a variety of forage. After years of gorging on Alewives biologists are finding the single protein diet is sterilizing salmon.

[SPAZ]

I don't think salmon can reproduce in the great lakes so being sterilized should not be an issue. Most of them our stocked by the states.

[Md]

Not sure SPAZ, but I do believe that is why the salmon runs occur up the rivers every fall. 

I don't think salmon can reproduce in the great lakes so being sterilized should not be an issue. Most of them our stocked by the states.