9/26/2023 0 Comments Fishing planet colorado bassCPW staff places artificial habitat structures into Sweitzer Lake.To further enhance the fishery, CPW has placed dozens of artificial habitat structures in the lake to help give the new fish a place to shelter as well as for anglers to focus their efforts. Sweitzer Lake is a productive lake that has the potential to grow large fish. “So we’ve had to do a fair bit of background work on the plan as well as fundraising to install a fish screen below the lake that ensures no fish will escape and get into other surrounding waterways.” “We can manage for largemouth bass and bluegill, but we need a lake management plan approved by other signatory agencies within the recovery program before we can go ahead and stock the lake,” said Gardunio. The recovery program creates some limitations as to what species Colorado Parks and Wildlife can actively manage for in western Colorado. Adding largemouth bass and bluegill was identified as a way to create a more desirable warm-water fishery that is compatible with native fish in the rivers. Historically, Sweitzer Lake contained green sunfish, black bullhead and common carp. Colorado Parks and Wildlife, along with other state and federal agencies, belongs to the Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program that aims to recover endangered fish in the Colorado River basin. The work took years of planning that included getting multiple organizations to sign off on a new lake management plan. “We also tried to focus on moving fish in situations where it would benefit the ecology of the waters they were being moved from.” “The goal in transferring from a few places was to get fish in different size ranges so we have multiple age classes building up the population,” Gardunio said.
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