PFBC Meets Tomorrow Regarding Stocking Over Class A Populations
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sixfootfenwick
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Yep.
All of them
Stretches of small water that get lots of human activity will have few wild brook trout and brown. Maybe a few.
If a section of surface water flow is not truly suitable for wild and native trout because of high density human activities, and/or stability of stream composition, then it would seem to be a stretch/section open for temporarily holding food-strain trout. Those trout in a stream, especially rainbows, will drift downstream if weak or necessary behavior. Wild and native trout are much less inclined to hang out at the swimming hole (although they will) than in another section.
Recreational stocking of short-life expectancy human-desired food fish - trout in Pennsylvania, catfish in Texas - is for those for whom fishing is mostly occasional and social.
Sacrificial sections of water bodies for light recreational activities by fringe fishing people would seem to help overall in keeping flyfishing a respected activity of the general population.
But Class A do need protection.
If a section of surface water flow is not truly suitable for wild and native trout because of high density human activities, and/or stability of stream composition, then it would seem to be a stretch/section open for temporarily holding food-strain trout. Those trout in a stream, especially rainbows, will drift downstream if weak or necessary behavior. Wild and native trout are much less inclined to hang out at the swimming hole (although they will) than in another section.
Recreational stocking of short-life expectancy human-desired food fish - trout in Pennsylvania, catfish in Texas - is for those for whom fishing is mostly occasional and social.
Sacrificial sections of water bodies for light recreational activities by fringe fishing people would seem to help overall in keeping flyfishing a respected activity of the general population.
But Class A do need protection.
Freeman run is a tributary to the First Fork of the Sinnemahoning. It’s (the First Fork) around 30 miles of stocked trout with great access on both public and private land. It also has a Keystone Select section and Stevenson Reservoir, which allow for year round trout fishing.
No one is hurting for stocked trout fishing opportunities in that area.
GANGGREEN
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Amen. I recognize that I'm in the minority, but I'd be OK with ALL of the streams in Potter and nearby counties coming off the stocking list, but even if you LOVE you some stocked trout, there are SCADS of opportunities here and we need not be stocking over Class A streams for a research study whose data likely wouldn't surprise anyone (and whose data might not even be used because the return to the stocking list isn't about "science" but social issues entirely (namely guys who simply could never have enough miles of stocked trout water)).
