JakesLeakyWaders
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Thanks, looks good.
BS4.jpg
franklin wrote:
I'm having trouble placing the spot from my memory. Is the work here?
Fishidiot wrote:
franklin wrote:
I'm having trouble placing the spot from my memory. Is the work here?
Yes (a bit to the right of your arrow).
Maurice,
You're correct, the island is man made and didn't exist before. It currently exists in what would have been the center of the channel before the stream was narrowed. I too assumed it was some form of spawning braid, although I've never seen anything quite like this built anywhere else. The side braid is only about 2' wide and very shallow. There are some folks who have long felt that the historic success of brookie spawning in BS is due to the shallow nature of the stream combined with fine gravel and current upwellings thru that gravel. I don't know what affect, if any, these changes will have on spawning and the brookie vs rainbow issue. I do feel that these changes will greatly improve the area with regards to holding water and trout survivability.
cmkrachen wrote:
They should call it what it is. An amazing wild rainbow fishery and leave it at that...Theyre are plenty of limestone streams they can dump money into and try and fix that dont have well established trout populations, these would be good for putting brookies in.
cmkrachen wrote:
PLus most of the big fish get poached out of there anyway.. The big brown that i caught several times was "walked down under the bridge into the harvest section and harvested"...some sport there...