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Mike
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About the time that opening day rolls around there is usually a post on this board that deals with fly fishing and the "realities" of opening day. At least some of the comments seem to lament that there is no good place to fish for stockies with a fly on opening day if you don't want to mix it up with the spinning and bait crowds. Unless I have misinterpreted this, the suggestion to me has been that perhaps some of these individuals would like to harvest a few fish instead of strictly going C&R on that day, thus the thought of fishing with the harvest oriented crowd. Other comments have focused on fly fishing later in the day after the crowds have diminished. Clearly though, for reasons largely not expressed there has been some desire by some board participants to fish on regular (no special regs) streams.
Years ago (1970's era) there was a FFO program that was later dismantled with many of the waters going to DH-FFO and perhaps some other programs. The rules were simple: an FFO section was set up on a stocked trout stream; it was stocked at the same or similar rate as the rest of the stream; on the normal opening day the section was opened to harvest with a reduced creel limit of 3 trout per day and a size limit of 9 in. Those regs remained in effect throughout the season and the section was stocked again inseason. I am uncertain on one point. I am not sure if the FFO sections were open to C&R prior to opening day or not, but in a more modern era they would have been. Do you think this would be attractive to fly anglers today (or enough of them to make such areas worthwhile)? Why or why not?
Years ago (1970's era) there was a FFO program that was later dismantled with many of the waters going to DH-FFO and perhaps some other programs. The rules were simple: an FFO section was set up on a stocked trout stream; it was stocked at the same or similar rate as the rest of the stream; on the normal opening day the section was opened to harvest with a reduced creel limit of 3 trout per day and a size limit of 9 in. Those regs remained in effect throughout the season and the section was stocked again inseason. I am uncertain on one point. I am not sure if the FFO sections were open to C&R prior to opening day or not, but in a more modern era they would have been. Do you think this would be attractive to fly anglers today (or enough of them to make such areas worthwhile)? Why or why not?