Fish Sticks
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Ground water- lime stone/sand stone, old mine shaft, or wetland gravel basal layer of old colluvium forgives many sins
You don’t have to go to WV to see that. Here you can find ST and BT is such environs.The Elkhorn in WV is a classic example. If they can thrive with human waste being flushed directly into the stream, along with all the other trash, they can survive/thrive anywhere.
Skook and carbon county!You don’t have to go to WV to see that. Here you can find ST and BT is such environs.
Where in Carbon county?Skook and carbon county!
I know the Elkhorn well. I always take hand sanitizer and never wet wade that one. The wild browns and bows don't ming running you up under a rolled up submerged carpet there 🤣✌️The Elkhorn in WV is a classic example. If they can thrive with human waste being flushed directly into the stream, along with all the other trash, they can survive/thrive anywhere.
Theres a huge rainbow fingerling stocking operation in lebanon co streams I have heard. Hammer/quittie. Between those two watersheds there are 4-5 private hatcheries/trout ponds on farms alone in those two watersheds. Also if your talking about Indian town gap run that co-op hatchery just leaks hatchery escapees all the time 🥴🤮My son has lived between Harrisburg and Hershey for 2 years. He's caught wild browns in every water he's tried - except for the Letort... he didn't catch anything there but called it a good day when he had one "look at" the fly. He has also caught some very small rainbows, but we can save the wild 'bow discussions for another thread.
Becks has sunoco canisters burried in the soil leaching toxic benzene into the stream and I don’t think sunoco has to date been required to clean that up but couod be wront inhaven’t follwed up on that in a few years. Bachman has massive springs above 322. I have toured a private property up there with a hatchery that has built a hatchery around them. Even kilinger has Trout in believe. Beck has a farm on 322 with a trout harchery built into it as well with a big spring coming out from under a barn. Even becks headwaters up in gretna have springs. Almost bought a house up there with 5 springs on the property that form a trib to beck.
Yea it’ll suprise you. My biggest out of daulphin,skook, lebanon county brook trout comes downstream of a malfunctioning septic, cow s***, people emptying their coal burning stoves into the river, and 7ft high crumbling dirt cliffs.
Looking upstream at 322, Bachman looks like a freestone trickle. I always thought springs came in downstream from 322. Are they in both spots? Where is Bachman's stocked?Becks has sunoco canisters burried in the soil leaching toxic benzene into the stream and I don’t think sunoco has to date been required to clean that up but couod be wront inhaven’t follwed up on that in a few years. Bachman has massive springs above 322. I have toured a private property up there with a hatchery that has built a hatchery around them. Even kilinger has Trout in believe. Beck has a farm on 322 with a trout harchery built into it as well with a big spring coming out from under a barn. Even becks headwaters up in gretna have springs. Almost bought a house up there with 5 springs on the property that form a trib to beck.
Yes, you're right. On the lower Nesquehoning, near it's mouth, there's a containment/filter pond. I'd forgotten all about it.... and nesqahoning doesn’t it?
There is a diesel spring on each side of bachmans that join it at same spot on rover left and river right about a 1/4 mile up bachmans on private land. The owner has mid teens brown trout that eat his harchery escapees. I was up there touring the sunoco pipeline damage its not open to fishing for sure lol.Looking upstream at 322, Bachman looks like a freestone trickle. I always thought springs came in downstream from 322. Are they in both spots? Where is Bachman's stocked?
The county line with schuykill has quite a bit of AmD and Ag with still creek/quakkee creek, lizard, and nesqahoning doesn’t it? Tamaqua is the poster child of toxic avenger wild native brook trout. For those afraid of spring creek in harrisburg don’t go fishing in tamqua by the homes canps.