RLeep2 wrote:
My understanding is that this program has been a resounding fizzle in both stream sections and that 2015 is the last year of the pilot.
I have no idea whether this means that stocking of catchables will resume in the Caldwell reg water in 2016. I assume it will. There really isn't much point in having a special regulations area without fish...
Sylvaneous wrote:
Yeah, I live about 5 miles from the Little sandy water. It has a wild trout population already, but the real attraction for me in years past was that there were standard sized stocked trout to catch in March and early April. Now it's some wild fish, which you don't usually see much of until May and the stockies that drift in from the stocked water. Not stocking 1 mile on an otherwise stocked stream doesn't really make sense.
Sylvaneous wrote:
It has a wild trout population already, but the real attraction for me in years past was that there were standard sized stocked trout to catch in March and early April.
albud1962 wrote:
It was thought the smaller fingerlings would not compete as much with the wild fish.