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Pike threaten trout fishery in Comins Lake
Northern pike, a voracious predatory fish, have become established and could threaten the rainbow trout fishery that is now found in Comins Lake, according to the Nevada Division of Wildlife.
Bob Layton, NDOW supervising fisheries biologist, said biologists discovered a number of pike during their fall surveys of the lake, which is nine miles south of Ely. The fish were 13-14 inches long and are believed to be offspring of fish that were illegally introduced into the lake.
"More than likely they were brought from Bassett Lake northeast of Ely by someone who wanted to establish a pike fishery at Comins," Layton said.
Stomach samples of the pike showed that they are feeding primarily upon juvenile largemouth bass that were spawned in the lake this spring. Biologists believe that they may be capable of eating stocked rainbow trout as well.
Layton said that Comins had a pike fishery from the early 1970s through the late 1980s. Through the years that fishery declined, and the size and body condition of the pike diminished because the lake is too small and doesn't have the forage to support a pike fishery. After it dried up and the remaining pike died in the late 1980s, NDOW decided to maintain Comins as a trout and largemouth bass fishery.
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