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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. _ The midnight stocker strikes again!
The latest documented crime scenes are Horseshoe and Martin reservoirs, two fishing gems beneath the Spanish Peaks.
Each has its own personality and each has been carefully managed to provide something for a variety of fishing tastes. Each now appears to be have been victimized by some bait-bucket biologist who looks upon your lakes and mine as his personal little laboratory.
Carp have appeared in Horseshoe. According to Colorado Division of Wildlife population sampling, they already make up 9 percent of the population, and all are less than 10 inches long.
The outlook is not good.
Tiger muskies - northern pike/muskellunge hybrids, "mules" that cannot reproduce - were stocked into Horseshoe in the mid-1980s to control a copious population of suckers. They were remarkably good at it. The hungry tigers all but eliminated suckers from the lake, freeing up feed and habitat for game fish, which responded by growing quickly.
The tigers also grew large and provided opportunities to fish for true trophies. Since they could not reproduce, their population could be controlled to maintain a balanced fishery.
Source: HighBeam Research, Fishing outlook not good in some Colorado reservoirs.(The...