TPWD 1958 F-4-R-5 #420: Resurvey of Lakes Possum Kingdom and Mountain Creek, together with the Leon, Boscue, and Brazos Rivers and their watersheds Located Within Region 4-B

Report of Fisheries Investigations Resurvev of Lakes Possum Kingdom and Mountain Creek, together with the Leon, Boscue, and Brazos Rivers and their watersheds Located Within Region h-B by Leonard D. Lamb Project Leader Dingell-Johnson Project F-h-R-S, Job B~2l November l, 1957 - October 31, 1958 H. D. Dodgen - Executive Secretary Texas Game and Fish Commission Austin, Texas Marion Toole William H. Brown and Kenneth Jurgens Coordinator Assistant Coordinators SEGMENT COMPLETION REPORT State of TEXAS Project No. PARS Name: Fisheries Inves igations and Sn1rveys of the W” WaterswEE'Begioni bH —B. Job No. B~21 Title: Besurvey of Lakes Possum Kingdom and Mountain WWW- -mmw Brazos Rivers and their Watersheds located with- ;ngegisn E-B, “flw__*"“"“‘*““"rrw_-"—-—w—m*w Period Covered: EEXEEEE£.1: 195T CthEEEMQEEEE§£m§£__1958 OBJECTIVES: cmw:m rm“— To bring up to date the data collected on these waters during the past segments and provide data for use in the recommendations for fishing regulations. ABSTRACT: The majority of the time allocated to this job was resuired by t kill of shed in Possum Kingdom Lake since netting both before and aft to determine the effectiveness of the kill. he selective er was needed Seine and net collections recovered 26 species representing 9 families and 17 genera with the seine samples dominated by blacktail shiner and the net samples dominated by gizaard shad. The catch of shad after the selective kill was larger than immediately before the kill indicating that the net method of sampling is unreliable except ahen a long eriod of netting is used. new: The proposed procedure for this job included net and seine checks of the Brazos; Leon and Boscue rivers as well as Lakes Mountain Creek and Possum Kingdom. dig a" water delaved the stream work and the select.1 ive kill e1 shed in insane iiflngW Lake re uired the use of the time allocated to this jen so that this repor is concerned only with Possum Kingdom Lake where an intensive inventory was me de to determ:i.ne the status of the gizzard shad immediately before and after the selective kill. Wet checks were made during April and Mav as a part of the recheck and en July 29 through 31, an attempt was made to cover the en tire lake witha net and seine check. This coverage extended from Neely-s slough. near the dam; to Carter Island near the confluence of Rock Creek and the Brazos River. This net chec; was repeated on August 26 through 28, when the nets were set at the same locations as in the July check. gasULTs : The check list of species from Possum Kingdom contains 38 species representing 12 families and 23 genera (Table l). The seine and net collections made during this recheck took 26 species representing 9 families and 17 genera. ' The collections made at sixteen seine stations included sixteen species of which the blacktail shiner (figtropis venustus) was the most numerous with 169 specimens followed by bluegill sunfish, the parrot minnow, and the plains red _ shiner with 57, A6, and #1 respectively. Plains red shiner (Notropis lutrensis) and blacktail Shiner (Notropis venustus) appeared in seine samples from 10 of the 16 stations with bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus) found at 9 stations. The gill net collections for April were dominated by longnose gar (Lepisosteus ossegg) and gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum) with h8.l7 and 38.22 percent respect tivdly. The May netting prdduced fewer gar but the catch of shad increased to h6.2l percent. The net collections of July and August showed a reduction in the percentage of shed with a rise in the percentage of almost all other species. The gill net catch of shad in July was somewhat less than that of August despite the selective kill of shad that was attempted on August 6, l958. This appears to point up the fact that net sampling is to be considered only as an indication of a trend since there are so many variables involved in netting. coat Lusgows : The results of netting both before and after the selective kill indicate that the larger shad were not eliminated in sufficient number for effective control. This may be due to the chemical used being of insufficient strength to accomplish the intended objective since other jobs of this nature have been successful. The taking of shad in large numbers points up the need for a repetition of this work with chemicals of standard strength in an effort to attain a suitable control of giszard shad. fi% I % Prepared by Leonard D. Lamb Approved by éfiirtfiarrtv ::i;____#fl_fl_;__flm_ m "1.— ..“..q- u-u-fl—rwau.L—n_—a— “.mW Project Leader Director Inland Fisheries Division Date December 9, 1958 —.uu-u— m _-MM—fl $ab1e 1" Che 11L 1 of Fishes from Possum Kingdom Lake} June 1} 1953 through Oct ober 311958 ..M-w*mfl.fl. .WWMW ..-——W----m.~u_n_wfl. 1-1- SCIENTIFIC BANE ' COMMON NAME Lesfisoo eus p1afostomus Lepi sosteus productus "-W —-u_'m Lep sosteus oe seus u...“— D012: some ceped1aa1m .1. an.“ I“ CBTPLOdES ca1p1 M- -_-m —. 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