afishinado
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For those who didn’t read the post in the conservation section of the forum, I have copied some info from that section about the Tully.
The fingerling stocking was halted on the Tulpehocken as of last year because it was believed that the survival rate for fingerlings was low. My fishing experience has been that the fingerlings were surviving quite well. I live fairly close to the Tully and fish it quite often. It was my favorite non-wild trout place to fish. I would catch the smaller fingerlings along with holdovers winter and spring. By late summer and fall even the fingerlings were great looking fish. I found under the fingerling stocking program, both the number of fish and size distribution was very good in the Tully. I regularly caught some hefty, well-colored rainbow and brown holdovers. Not exactly wild fish, but better than adult stocked streams.
Last year was the first year that the stream had both holdover fingerlings and stocked adults, so the fishing was good. I believe that stocking adults only, will decrease the overall number of trout, since far more fingerlings were stocked than adults. I’m not even sure if the size will necessarily increase either by stocking adults only.
I was disappointed when I recently fished the Tully and caught some pale, wimpy, freshly stocked fish. The Little J is a great example of the success of the fingerling program. I know it doesn’t work everywhere, but I believe it worked at the Tully. Just my opinion.
VC Regular made me aware of an article in the READING EAGLE about fingerling stocking on the Tully and sending feedback to the PFBC. Attached is the article and the address of the person to voice your opinion. If you fish the Tully, voice your opinion for or against fingerling stocking.
http://www.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=23149
mkaufmann@state.pa.us.
The fingerling stocking was halted on the Tulpehocken as of last year because it was believed that the survival rate for fingerlings was low. My fishing experience has been that the fingerlings were surviving quite well. I live fairly close to the Tully and fish it quite often. It was my favorite non-wild trout place to fish. I would catch the smaller fingerlings along with holdovers winter and spring. By late summer and fall even the fingerlings were great looking fish. I found under the fingerling stocking program, both the number of fish and size distribution was very good in the Tully. I regularly caught some hefty, well-colored rainbow and brown holdovers. Not exactly wild fish, but better than adult stocked streams.
Last year was the first year that the stream had both holdover fingerlings and stocked adults, so the fishing was good. I believe that stocking adults only, will decrease the overall number of trout, since far more fingerlings were stocked than adults. I’m not even sure if the size will necessarily increase either by stocking adults only.
I was disappointed when I recently fished the Tully and caught some pale, wimpy, freshly stocked fish. The Little J is a great example of the success of the fingerling program. I know it doesn’t work everywhere, but I believe it worked at the Tully. Just my opinion.
VC Regular made me aware of an article in the READING EAGLE about fingerling stocking on the Tully and sending feedback to the PFBC. Attached is the article and the address of the person to voice your opinion. If you fish the Tully, voice your opinion for or against fingerling stocking.
http://www.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=23149
mkaufmann@state.pa.us.