The Most Interesting Pay-to-Play Place I've Ever Seen

[Cebe]

Rockwell Spring Trout Club is on Little Pickerel Creek, which I believe is a separate Spring, but likely the same Aquafer. I could be wrong on that, but sat view does sort of confirm this. There is a fair distance to Blue Hole. The land there is super flat, so it is hard to tell. Castalia Trout Club and the ODNR hatchery are on Cold Creek.

On a side note, Castalia Trout Club appears to be quite a bit larger than Rockwell.

Looks like it. Always thought they were on the same creek.👍

 

[FarmerDave]

Looks like it. Always thought they were on the same creek.👍

I did too until I read in their website that they are on Little Pickerel Creek, which I had never even heard of.

 

[Steeltrap]

I guess it's every individuals choice, but when I look at places such as http://www.yellowcreektroutinc.com/membership.html and see that it's not a member owned club, and the annual fee is $1,500 to catch stocked trout (perhaps large and also Tiger) I sort of scratch my head. Stockiest are "free" to catch in any local stream.

Again, to each his own, but I'm not one who gets it.

 

[wildtrout2]

I guess it's every individuals choice, but when I look at places such as http://www.yellowcreektroutinc.com/membership.html and see that it's not a member owned club, and the annual fee is $1,500 to catch stocked trout (perhaps large and also Tiger) I sort of scratch my head. Stockiest are "free" to catch in any local stream.

Again, to each his own, but I'm not one who gets it.

For $1,500 you could buy a lot of salmon, flounder, shrimp, scallops, crab, and lobster. Guaranteed catch. Just a thought.

 

[Fish Sticks]

For $1,500 you could buy a lot of salmon, flounder, shrimp, scallops, crab, and lobster. Guaranteed catch. Just a thought.

1500 is three guided trips for Christ’s sake!!!!! where you might actually learn something besides the “super secret club fly” and what so and so rubs on it to catch the stockers.

 

[TimMurphy]

For $1,500 you could buy a lot of salmon, flounder, shrimp, scallops, crab, and lobster. Guaranteed catch. Just a thought.

Dear wildtrout,

You must have an inexpensive seafood market nearby! 😉

Here in Harrisburg seafood is very dear, to use an old Nana term. Flounder on sale is like $ 8.99/lb. I can't afford that, so I buy the red tagged steaks and pork and chicken products. Today for example I'm smoking 6 lbs. of brontosaurus sized Saint Louis ribs that I picked up with a sticker on it for $ 11.99. We'll get 3 or maybe 4 meals out of them too since it's just me and wife.

To the original post, fishing in a pay pit is boring to me. I'd rather do my own work regardless of the outcome.

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂

 

[Cebe]

I guess it's every individuals choice, but when I look at places such as http://www.yellowcreektroutinc.com/membership.html and see that it's not a member owned club, and the annual fee is $1,500 to catch stocked trout (perhaps large and also Tiger) I sort of scratch my head. Stockiest are "free" to catch in any local stream.

Again, to each his own, but I'm not one who gets it.

Yes I really don’t seen the sense of it in trout rich Pennsylvania. Ohio is pretty much a trout desert with nothing much to speak of, and I know some of the members of Rockwell are pretty avid trout fishers. So they can scratch that itch without a two or three hour drive every time.

I suppose there are some members that have never fished trout anywhere else and it is all they know. That would be kind of sad.

Keystone anglers should feel fortunate that a trout club is not your only option.

 

[Fish Sticks]

Yes I really don’t seen the sense of it in trout rich Pennsylvania. Ohio is pretty much a trout desert with nothing much to speak of, and I know some of the members of Rockwell are pretty avid trout fishers. So they can scratch that itch without a two or three hour drive every time.

I suppose there are some members that have never fished trout anywhere else and it is all they know. That would be kind of sad.

Keystone anglers should feel fortunate that a trout club is not your only option.

I personally like fly fishing for so many different species on the fly as long as they know how to be a fish and are not a manufactured trophy. Pickerel Creek probably has something that bites besides trout id imagine and if I lived out there id probably just chase smallmouth, bluegill, and pickere

 

[Cebe]

I personally like fly fishing for so many different species on the fly as long as they know how to be a fish and are not a manufactured trophy. Pickerel Creek probably has something that bites besides trout id imagine and if I lived out there id probably just chase smallmouth, bluegill, and pickere

Yep
there are other species with steelhead obviously the glamour fish although a totally “manufactured” fishery. Oddly enough, there are three flyfishing clubs and a TU chapter in Cleveland and lots of members fish trout all over the country.