Stocked fingerlings

[hemlock]

The white is mostly natural repro for browns, and stocked bows. The browns get very big eating the "planter bows" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JE3ByyDdzxJPMC1_u1a783vObdiBZTjY/view

I'm not seeing anything in that management plan about the white being mostly natural reproduction. Am I missing it?

 

[Broodstock]

I'm not seeing anything in that management plan about the white being mostly natural reproduction. Am I missing it?

This is the one I read a while ago but I no longer have access to the full text. https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/70024996
They do spawn, and guys actually fish the shoals during the fall to target them. The success varies a lot with river/water/generation conditions with the hydro plants. They do stock browns as well as bows it appears.

 

[troutbert]

This is the one I read a while ago but I no longer have access to the full text. https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/70024996
They do spawn, and guys actually fish the shoals during the fall to target them.

What would a "shoal" look like on the river?

I haven't heard that term used on our rivers and streams.

 

[tomgamber]

What would a "shoal" look like on the river?

I haven't heard that term used on our rivers and streams.

I would imagine that means shallow areas not right along the bank. Not a term we use up here much, obviously. Not too many Swampers up he'ah!

 

[Broodstock]

What would a "shoal" look like on the river?

I haven't heard that term used on our rivers and streams.

Yeah, as tomgamber said, they call large riffles "shoals" in the south. A good example would be Roundhouse Shoal (https://maps.app.goo.gl/cJyLd3apUPgypX457)

The dam on the white that produces the most important tailwater section is called Bull Shoals (as is the lake it impounds) due to the location of a shoal prior to the dam (https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/bull-shoals-dam-and-lake-6078/)

As an aside- the brown in my profile photo is from the White.

 

[JimKennedy]

Yeah, as tomgamber said, they call large riffles "shoals" in the south. A good example would be Roundhouse Shoal (https://maps.app.goo.gl/cJyLd3apUPgypX457)

The dam on the white that produces the most important tailwater section is called Bull Shoals (as is the lake it impounds) due to the location of a shoal prior to the dam (https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/bull-shoals-dam-and-lake-6078/)

As an aside- the brown in my profile photo is from the White.

Out on the Chesapeake a shoal is a large sand bar. My dad always said they were good spots to drift over because the fish liked to stop by the bar after work.