Officer Scott Bashioum fishing tourney

Hello everyone.
 
If you are interested in a fishing tournament in support of fallen officer, Scott Bashioum of Canonsburgh, please check out this link.
 
www.scityoutdoors.com
 
Thanks

The entire creek will be open to fishing--
Canonsburg Lake dam- down to the mouth in McKees Rocks.  You can go anywhere you wish.
 

My wife and I and a few others hung a flag off the Montour Trail bridge in Hendersonville when his hearse passed by to the burial, quite a moving moment. He was really a fearless hero.

Meatball
 habitat ruining egg eating oversized goldfish .

What a misinformed, uneducated statement this is.
Do some research......

while i believe this is for a great cause as i am local to the area, i would urge caution for anyone removing undersized bass (or other species) from the creek, even if kept alive in a cooler and for a tournament to be released later, they can get fined for "keeping" undersized fish.  
 
agree with meatball for once.  remove the invasive carp.  
 
KingKool, please tell us how carp are good for a stream?

Gilligan JR-- that is a great point.  I will talk with the fish commission ASAP (who I invited to join us at the tourney) and make sure that we can somehow parlay this.  When speaking with them earlier in the year when I was trying to get this going, they were extremely supportive with all of my questions and diligent about giving me concrete answers.
 
But still, that is something worth my worry...  Thanks for the heads up.
 
Again, Meatball, thank you! :)

GilliganJR
 
 
KingKool, please tell us how carp are good for a stream?

their eggs and fry provide a food and forage base for numerous aquatic species.
they eat zebra mussels and non native crayfish that are dumped into the stream by bass fisherman.
 
How do bass benefit the stream?
How do the non native rainbow trout benefit the stream?

KingKool

GilliganJR
 
 
KingKool, please tell us how carp are good for a stream?

their eggs and fry provide a food and forage base for numerous aquatic species.
they eat zebra mussels and non native crayfish that are dumped into the stream by bass fisherman.
 
How do bass benefit the stream?
How do the non native rainbow trout benefit the stream?

carp eat zebra mussels?  never heard of that.  in chartiers creekno less, where there are no zebra mussles.  cool.
 
so you're cool with one invasive as long as it eats another invasive?  cool.
 
bass are native to the region.  carp are not native to this hemisphere. 
 
nobody talking about stockie trout but you.  

GilliganJR

KingKool

GilliganJR
 
 
KingKool, please tell us how carp are good for a stream?

their eggs and fry provide a food and forage base for numerous aquatic species.
they eat zebra mussels and non native crayfish that are dumped into the stream by bass fisherman.
 
How do bass benefit the stream?
How do the non native rainbow trout benefit the stream?

carp eat zebra mussels?  never heard of that.  in chartiers creekno less, where there are no zebra mussles.  cool.
 
so you're cool with one invasive as long as it eats another invasive?  cool.
 
bass are native to the region.  carp are not native to this hemisphere. 
 
nobody talking about stockie trout but you.  

There's at least one study that says they do (see below)...and you asked how carp benefit "a" stream, not Chartiers Creek.
If carp negatively affected Chartiers Creek to such an extreme extent, then why is it that there are so many other fish species in the creek?
I would suggest, that water quality improvement that has come about by other factors (less pollution, acid mine drainage, runoff, etc) is what will increase the fishing opportunities in Chartiers Creek. Not the eradication of carp, which will never happen anyway. So just accept that they are here and are a part of the ecosystem now, as they have been for longer than you or I have been alive.
 

Predation on zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) 
by common carp (Cyprinus carpio) 
John K. Tucker, Frederick A. Cronin, Dirk W. Soergel 
Long Term Resources Monitoring Program Pool 26 
Illinois Natural History Survey 
4134 Alby Street 
Alton, Illinois 62002 USA 
and 
Charles H. Theiling 
Ecological Specialists, Inc. 
114 Algana Ct. 
St. Peters, Missouri 63376, USA 
ABSTRACT 
We examined the gut contents of 31 common carp (Cyprinus 
carpio) collected at Mississippi River Mile 217 in August 1995 
for evidence of predation on zebra mussels (Dreissena 
polymorpha). We found between 1 and 407 zebra mussel 
beaks in 83.9% of the fish we examined. For all fish examined, 
common carp contained 118.2 beaks per fish or about 59 zebra 
mussels per fish. The survey did not indicate that larger fish 
consumed more zebra mussels than smaller fish. Estimated 
valve length for zebra mussels consumed ranged from 1.48 to 
42.52 mm with a mean 11.79 mm (SE = 0.10 mm). We found 
that larger fish tended to prey on larger zebra mussels than did 
smaller fish. The general size range of zebra mussels 
consumed by common carp overlapped the upper portion of the 
size range of young-of-the-year zebra mussels living at the site 
and the lower portion of the size range of older zebra mussels 
living at the site. 
INTRODUCTION 
The zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) is a recent invader of the 
Great Lakes and Mississippi River. These mussels attach to available hard 
substrates using byssal threads (Eckroat et al. 1993). They filter large 
quantities of water for the food and compete with other molluscs for space 
and food. Zebra mussels can form dense aggregations on unionid mussels. 
 
So ou still need to answer my question: (which I have edited) How do smallmouth bass benefit Chartiers Creek?

KingKool

GilliganJR
 
 
KingKool, please tell us how carp are good for a stream?

their eggs and fry provide a food and forage base for numerous aquatic species.
they eat zebra mussels and non native crayfish that are dumped into the stream by bass fisherman.
 
How do bass benefit the stream?
How do the non native rainbow trout benefit the stream?

L O L, they prob eat their own eggs, or at least obviously many of them, I watched many different species in aquariums eat their own. Non native crayfish would be gobbled up by more smallmouth than carp, cause carp are too busy eating everybody elses eggs. Ever wonder why Canonsburg Lake looks like coffee in late July when it hasn't rained in two weeks? Rooting carp. Now stunted rooting carp cause they ate themselves outta house and home. And that place is overloaded with rusty crayfish

Next tourney to benefit our local hero should be a total weight carp bag from Canonsburg Lake

might as well.  

Meatball
What a great benefit to his cause and to the lake. They will be draining and dredging soon anyway, lets help out and have fun eradicating

You'll never eradicate, as long as Linden Creek feeds the lake....maybe install an electric fence, across Linden, like they're doing out near Chicago.......

so do your part kingcool, show up. I'll pay 100 bucks to the hero fund to meet you