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.

 

[krayfish2]

I think the Yough issues were touched on a few years back in a thread on here. While many tailwaters have brown trout that don't require feeders to spawn. They'll do it mid river if they can find the right conditions. Between Confluence and Ohiopyle, I can think of 3-4 spots that would be possible spawning area. In that same section, how many tribes flow in this would give fish passage and have the required bottom? I'm not sure there's one. While I don't rule out reproduction, it's minimal at best.

If you could combine the Yough temps / flows with the feeders of the Lehigh..... You'd have a dandy