I’ve caught those species I listed in good quantity’s fairly recently. And on multiple trips multiple years. They have to be stocked. They aren’t just washed out of a farm pond. Small brookie streams don’t give up multiple largemouth and multiple bluegills and multiple bullheads and multiple channel catfish from the same hole. Let alone multiple holes like this.
PFBC (or it's predecessor) was created because of the decline of shad... Restoring and maintaining native populations of fish is a good thing. PFBC ability to do that with shad has been an utter failure, for the length of the agency's existence. But they have a lot stacked against them, in trying to restore shad. I'd be happy if the PFBC stuck with restoring and maintaining native populations of fish.I'll give another which would be number 2 on my list. Not caused by fisheries mismanagement from the PFBC but rather life and progress. Shad.
Pennsylvania's Shad runs are well documented through history. Would have been an anglers paradise.
Here is a unique piece of history about the Pennsylvania Shad run many don't know. Pretty entertaining read. In the end of it, the PFBC tried to help the Shad but they were doomed to fail considering all the factors against them.
RW Fish Wars on the Schuylkill • The Goschenhoppen Historians
Fish Wars on the Schuylkill Robert Wood From the earliest times the Schuylkill and its tributaries were noted for their abundance of fish. Fresh fish from local creeks would have been a welcome addition to the diets of early settlers in the region. In addition to the resident populations of...goschenhoppen.org
