What else is going on at Big Spring?

[Bamboozle]

Are the logs & rocks they are using for the "improvements" native to PA..? 😉

 

[sarce]

Dear sarce,

I was being facetious with my post. My point was that there are many streams with self-sustaining trout populations that do not feature actual "native" brook trout in them. I would suspect that even in streams with 100% brook trout populations no more than perhaps 25% of them contain native strains indigenous to the streams.

All good! I tend to take things too literally! Probably feeds into my being a wild vs native stickler.

 

[TimMurphy]

All good! I tend to take things too literally! Probably feeds into my being a wild vs native stickler.

Dear sarce,

No worries, I didn't feel hurt or offended in the least bit.

My argument is with the back the brookies guys who posted on this thread who often talk about their smallmouth exploits in the Susquehanna drainage. I've always maintained that it seems rather disingenuous to be pro-brookie for PA while fishing for smallmouth outside of their native Mississippi River drainage. 😉

I've been doing that on this board for 30 years; I'll do it until I drop dead too!

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂

 

[wildtrout2]

My argument is with the back the brookies guys who posted on this thread who often talk about their smallmouth exploits in the Susquehanna drainage. I've always maintained that it seems rather disingenuous to be pro-brookie for PA while fishing for smallmouth outside of their native Mississippi River drainage. 😉

Yeah, no different than the pro-brookie guys (me) talking about the great "wild" brown trout fishing on certain streams (again, me). The smallies and wild browns aren't going anywhere.

I've been doing that on this board for 30 years; I'll do it until I drop dead too!

Me too! 🙂

 

[TimB]

Is the designation somone choses to use really that important?

From a recreational fishing perspective, not really. From a scientific or conservation perspective, yes.

 

[Chaz]

I have had the same thought so many times.

They aren’t native because they would never have been there except for stocking at some point. There are mane formerly stocked brook trout streams that don’t have populations of other trout except for the occasional wonderer.