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The portion of this program for streams, which is the portion that would most likely interest anglers here, wasn’t created with any specific gear type in mind and its creation was not related to the reasoning behind stocked trout lakes open to year around fishing, which focused on allowing fishing to continue for existing warmwater and coolwater species in trout stocked lakes when fishing is good, such as for yellow perch.
The stocked trout streams open to year around fishing came “through the back door” to join the lakes or vice versa. The stream portion of the reg was the result of creating a single reg and populating its membership with all stream sections that had previously been listed among all of the other STW’s for a given county in the Summary Booklet as “Stream Name (inseason only).”
The Area 6 AFM created the first inseason only stocked trout sections in Pa and for a long time such sections were only located in Area 6, a region that historically tended to breed “creative” uses of regulations out of necessity to maintain decent and abundant fisheries. In this case it was done out of in a high population region in order to successfully add waters to the stocking program in counties with few waters, but where landowners feared opening day crowds or didn’t wish to deal with them. Such was the case with Tully 08, Berks Co, for example, which is located in a beautifully maintained park system. That worked out very well there because of some holdovers and fish running out of the DH Area providing somewhat of an “unstocked” opening day fishery anyway.
Additionally, some sections were designated inseason only when landowners started to post. Posting landowners, others considering posting, and problems where posting creep was occurring on a stream were almost always relieved enough to continue stocking by eliminating opening day on those waters.
Years later some other AFMs listed a few stream sections similarly (inseason only). The Summary Booklet listings started to get a little out of hand so all of those stream sections were pulled from that STW part of the booklet and placed in a stocked trout waters open to year around fishing along with lakes
The stocked trout streams open to year around fishing came “through the back door” to join the lakes or vice versa. The stream portion of the reg was the result of creating a single reg and populating its membership with all stream sections that had previously been listed among all of the other STW’s for a given county in the Summary Booklet as “Stream Name (inseason only).”
The Area 6 AFM created the first inseason only stocked trout sections in Pa and for a long time such sections were only located in Area 6, a region that historically tended to breed “creative” uses of regulations out of necessity to maintain decent and abundant fisheries. In this case it was done out of in a high population region in order to successfully add waters to the stocking program in counties with few waters, but where landowners feared opening day crowds or didn’t wish to deal with them. Such was the case with Tully 08, Berks Co, for example, which is located in a beautifully maintained park system. That worked out very well there because of some holdovers and fish running out of the DH Area providing somewhat of an “unstocked” opening day fishery anyway.
Additionally, some sections were designated inseason only when landowners started to post. Posting landowners, others considering posting, and problems where posting creep was occurring on a stream were almost always relieved enough to continue stocking by eliminating opening day on those waters.
Years later some other AFMs listed a few stream sections similarly (inseason only). The Summary Booklet listings started to get a little out of hand so all of those stream sections were pulled from that STW part of the booklet and placed in a stocked trout waters open to year around fishing along with lakes
