Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3612 May 26-June 9 | Page 18

14 May 26 - June 9, 2017 MAP FEATURE VOL.36 • ISS. 12 New Hogan Lake is full and in great shape for fishing and boating this year. Photo by DAN BACHER, Fish Sniffer Staff. New Hogan’s Self-Sustaining Striped Bass Fishery W hen the California Depart- ment of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) stocked stripers in at New Hogan Reservoir in the early 1970s, fishery biologists believed that the lake didn’t have the habitat to sustain successful natural reproduction. However, as often is the case, na- ture finds a way. The stripers surprised the scientists and began successfully spawning every season that sufficient flows from the Calaveras River, a stre