Using funds volunteered by anglers for habitat improvement to install mud sills on 800 feet of public access on an otherwise completely pay-to-play stream that has been abused for decades by those exploiting the resource for money. That's not a misappropriation of funds?
That's not true. Read FS's post.
Multiple pass blocknet will get the vast majority of them. Crank the battery knowing you're going to kill a lot of smaller fish and there won't be many browns left.
This has nothing to do with liking brown trout. This is missing the point entirely.
No, I don't have to agree, because there is a strong chance it will work. This is done elsewhere quite a bit.
I believe that post was an old post from 2014. I don't think the date/time has been decided yet.
They'll get a permit to do it.
The brook trout is listed in the state wild life action plan as a species of “greatest conservation need” and has brown trout listed as largest biological threat with “strategy-removal” and you see no misuse of what little they don’t spend on producing invasive hatchery trout on a class A wild invasive brown trout stream that is mostly pay for play besides the reach pfbc “improved”?????
As I said on Facebook before I deleted my comments, "semantics."
It's not though. Treating all species the same implies that they all have the same value, or that they're all in the same boat. They're not. One is in the wildlife action plan, the bay agreement, has its own (abandoned) action plan, and is the only native stream dwelling salmonid in the state.
To summarize the one you might have missed, some researchers found that removing the lion's share of BT from a ST stream still resulted in the ST population rebounding to the point that they overtook the BT. They hypothesized that it is the same effect that allows an invasive species to gain the upper hand.
Nope not at all because the end result of one is the public has no idea brook trout have a higher conservation value and that efforts like the one that started this thread need to be supported thats the difference. There is no doubt you are here arguing against .000000000001%(made up number)of PA stream miles being actually managed for brown trout because of PFBC’s terrible track record on brook trout, communicated value system, and social conditioning as a child by anglers influenced by what they chose to value as well. The statement that it is semantics is tragically ironic because when we were all little kids riding bikes with fishing poles messaging that native brook trout are important fish and to be sought after may have prevented this very silly argument about doing so little for wild native brook trout in this big state full of invasive species.
Since when is the "Wild Trout & Enhanced Waters" money earmarked for native brook trout? Everything I ever read about it is that it was to be used for wild trout. It's not a "Native Brook Trout & Enhanced Waters" fund. Seems to me those wild brown trout on Spruce Creek are wild trout. There's no misappropriation of funds there.
I applaud the protection the PFBC is giving wild brown trout in Class A streams that are stocked. Forward thinking...great move!
I would've put the ratio of Donny Beaver mutants to wild brown trout at about 20:1 in the cavern stretch. Theoretically, the improvements will benefit the whole stream right? Who has exclusive access to the whole stream? Donny Beaver (and Harpster). So they improved habitat in 800ft of publicly held water that will benefit trout that Donny/Harpsters charge good money to fish for. Great use of public funds.
another example that PFBC does not care about brook trout. They could have made it rainbow harvest only. That would have protected brook trout in Penns Creek that are showing up.
The online comments and general attitude toward brook trout in PA is proof positive PFBC missed the mark on protecting the state fish.
Spruce Creek has a 1/2 mile section of stream that is mostly braided into two or more channels owned by Penn State University and open to the public, so for the record, Spruce Creek is not an "otherwise completely pay-to-play stream."
Semantics.
