The latest survey on PA Fly Fish

[Chaz]

The results puzzle me. I guess I don't understand the logic of C & R on stocked water, comments?

 

[NewSal]

If your referring to the "how many trout did you harvest" poll, I'm going to assume that most fly fishers spend most of there time fly fishing on non-stocked, wild streams, resulting in a high C&R rate..

 

[Vaughn]

Pretty simple for me, I don't like to eat fish.

 

[STONEMAN]

Nah. I let my stockies go because they're generally ugly an unappetizing. I let my wild ones go because they're so beautiful.

 

[dryflyguy]

Nothing wrong with letting stocked fish go. Although, I'll occasionally keep a few for friends who like to eat them, and ask me for some.
And when I do, I really dislike killing them, and putting them on a stringer.
It's just so much nicer to release them, and keep on fishing.

 

[dudemanspecial]

When you fish stocked waters, including DHALO sections, do you fish until you catch your legal limit? Then pack up and go home? Even in the rare times I keep fish, I'll usually fish all day and keep one or 2 at the end. I don't live around any wild trout streams so I c&r on my local stocked streams often.

 

[nomad_archer]

I fish the heck out of the local stocked streams. Its a little bit of a trip to get to the popular wild trout streams. I dont really care to keep trout wild or stocked.

On the other hand if I happen to do some bass or walleye fishing in non C&R waters I may keep a few for the frying pan that night.