Little known fact, radio tags expired in December so its more than 20% in all reality some fish in that study were not even done spawning 🙂
Nuts, fishermen will fish and and it will become more than 5%. More trout articles in the publications and video will entice more fisherman to the sanctuaries of the brook trout. stock fewer fish with poor education to the masses= will lead to even fewer fish in the streams.
Lol biased studies, I did not know you were such a consumer of peer reviewed fisheries literature. Please extrapolate on the objective evidence of bias in those studies. “Just studies that favor my point of view”, it couldn’t be that my point of view was formed by reading the studies fisheries scientists publish, that’d be impossible(based on this exchange).
As a southeastern PA angler, I see this quite frequently. Give it two weeks to a month after opening day and most folks are gone, having been satisfied with their fish murder numbers. The only good factor where I live is how easy it is to out-fish most, I would hate having to sling it out with skilled anglers. It always amazes me how lazy these local people are about fishing different parts of a creek. They just go to the same over-fished holes day in and day out, not bothering to explore just a few hundred yards upstream to start getting back into fish. Amazing!
ATW = approved trout waters.
Are you saying that having a single opening day resulted in increased angling pressure following the first inseason stockings in comparison to when there were two opening days two weeks apart? What do you think the explanation for that might be if that is what occurred? I ask because when we measured angler use and interviewed anglers on regional bordering counties during the first duel opening days only 15% of the anglers in each region on that region’s opening day were from outside of the region.
Sorry, I am referring to an earlier date for SEPA counties again. Earlier statewide is warranted for the same reasons I will try to explain below, so I am fine with that.
Lol “elite native trout hunters” yes its not a problem with stocking invasive species in a mass extinction event. Great attempt to brand efforts to mitigate an ecological disaster as an elitist movement
To be clear, I have no qualms with anglers, or anglers who fish for stocked trout. It’s the practice of stocking trout over wild brook trout that I have an issue with.
That I understand. My position is a bit different, however. I would favor not stocking over the B’s and even some C’s if a yet-to-be developed legal trout per km or mi standard for the C’s was met in two successive surveys. The standard would represent a good fishery potential and establish a cut-off point above which stocking would cease. To my knowledge this has never been proposed by anglers or biologists, but I had seen at least one Class C that ST stream that I would never have proposed for stocking because the abundance of 7-12 inch ST was so high. So, such a good C is possible.
Extinction? Explain.
I’ll one-up ya. I wouldn’t mind the stocking so much if they made brook trout C&R where there’s overlap. Not ideal, but it’s essentially what PFBC proposed for the 12 class a’s.
