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troutbert
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A few years ago I thought I read that the PFBC was going to get rid of the wired refuge areas.
But yesterday I saw two of them along Upper Jerry Run in Cameron County. And the signs looked new.
Does anyone know what happened with that? Was it just a proposal, that got voted down or tabled?
I Googled "PFBC refuge areas" and found nothing. I don't think there is anything in the regs booklet about them either.
For those who have never heard of them, they were/are short stretches of stocked streams that are entirely closed to fishing until June 15.
The idea apparently being to keep some stocked fish in the stream for awhile to extend the fishing provided by the stocked trout further into the season.
For some reason these wired refuge areas were/are found mostly from about Cameron County extending to the west, through NW PA.
But yesterday I saw two of them along Upper Jerry Run in Cameron County. And the signs looked new.
Does anyone know what happened with that? Was it just a proposal, that got voted down or tabled?
I Googled "PFBC refuge areas" and found nothing. I don't think there is anything in the regs booklet about them either.
For those who have never heard of them, they were/are short stretches of stocked streams that are entirely closed to fishing until June 15.
The idea apparently being to keep some stocked fish in the stream for awhile to extend the fishing provided by the stocked trout further into the season.
For some reason these wired refuge areas were/are found mostly from about Cameron County extending to the west, through NW PA.