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[Dave]

Brandooner - at 24, you were a kid not that long ago. Just because you haven't seen one or caught one doesn't mean there isn't some. Have you ever caught one or seen one of the monster 30#+ catfish that live there?

One morning a few years back, I saw a large long fish that passed under my pontoon boat that creeped me out so much the immediately my feet came out of the water and I oared well away from that spot. I could see it was a fish but couldn't identify it but I literally had bad dreams of this dang thing. I couldn't take it anymore and that was the deciding factor that made me sell my fishcat and stick to the jon boats.

Now I think it could have been a sturgeon that someone plunked into the lake - but maybe it wasn't. Either way, I don't put my feet into that lake anymore.

Rieb, time to sign up with Almo!! She could use you 

[Rieber]

Rieb, time to sign up with Almo!! She could use you 

What is Almo? 

[big_fish]

What is Almo? 

Someone who has as much as credibility as you.

[Rieber]

Someone who has as much as credibility as you.

Big_Fish, I just quickly scanned over your posts - hahaha - pretty weak. Not worth my time getting into it with you.

[Rantalot]

I know to funny hey Reiber I read all his posts after telling me all I do is stir up crap I just peed myself laughing so hard

[jon5hill]

Sounds like Mill Lake is a bit of a hotbed for invasives. I wonder if this lake might be a candidate for an intentional fish kill. Not that I would be in favor of that necessarily, considering other ecological issues, but sometimes it might be worth losing a battle to win the war. Nobody knows what the true cost is of a successful invasive species. Are there any tribs or connections to larger waterbodies from Mill Lake? Either way, if there are as many invasives as people have suggested here, something should be done about it.

[Rieber]

I just enjoy Mill Lake for what it is and has become. To kill the lake would destroy so many little creatures that the folks here in Abbotsford have grown so fond of. Lots of little turtles, eagles, geese, ducks and dragon flies. There would be such a public demonstration here of people holding hands around the lake to prevent a lake kill. Someday this little lake is going to become quite the bass fishing destination.

[Ian Forbes]

People have to have SOMEWHERE to dump their unwanted pets!

In Thailand the pet fish get eaten... or dumped in some stream in front of a temple to let the monks feed them.

[Rieber]

Between the Bass, Pike, Eagles and the two legged predators that keep everything they catch, pets dumped into Mill won't survive very long.

[jon5hill]

The question is whether or not Mill Lake poses a threat as a base for the proliferation of potentially invasive species. If the risk of this is high, then it should be looked at seriously, the only way to stop invasions is to prevent them

[Ian Forbes]

I think it is illegal to prevent Asians, British and stupid people from immigrating to Canada. That is where our invasive species  came from in the past. I would like to know how Largemouth bass "migrated" to southern Vancouver Island lakes, and a few lakes in the south Cariboo region.

[TheFishingLad]

I think it is illegal to prevent Asians, British and stupid people from immigrating to Canada. That is where our invasive species  came from in the past. I would like to know how Largemouth bass "migrated" to southern Vancouver Island lakes, and a few lakes in the south Cariboo region.

if it was legal to prevent different cultures from immigrating to Canada then none of us would be here.

[Ian Forbes]

if it was legal to prevent different cultures from immigrating to Canada then none of us would be here.

The laws and rules only happened after the British took over and started trying to turn North America into a larger version of Great Britain. The Chinese and Japanese were allowed to immigrate because the Brits did not enjoy doing manual labour. The Brits first thought they could get the local natives to do the drone work, but discovered the local natives disliked manual labour as much as they did, so the Brits imported Asians. The Americans had a slightly different system... they imported black slaves to do the hard work.

Each foreign culture that came to North America wanted to bring a little of their own culture with them. There were no environmental laws and people didn't even think about how they were affecting the country. That only happened fairly recently and probably only within the last 80 years. Now we are stuck with Starlings, European hares, pigs and other invasive species. Many Asian species of fish were imported and released into the wild.