Its a good thing...Bakers will no longer be stocked. Its like fishing in your bath tub. Hopefully wild brookies can retake that stream.
Agree. I misread your post initially.
I personally have never fished it. Never had the desire to fish it. I guess the road going up in is down right awful! My dad fishes it with the one neighbor every year and thats how I know what I know about Bakers.
Yea agreed there is an effect I was speaking towards more of extirpation risk.
Yes, I've caught stockers way upstream. Even up beyond the gate, and above where that major trib comes in. They must be taking them up there with ATVs.
Stony creek is stocked by people in my local TU chapter in dauphin county in a total wilderness area with wild native brook trout, shame. I think by PFBC as well. The rail trail is what they use I am guessing or maybe float stocking.
The PFBC stocks it. And it is pretty wild, but there is a road that goes in there, from the south side.
Stony has Tribs with brook trout and the main-stem has them too. I don’t know if Doc Fritchey TU “Officially” stocks it or if its just some guys in the chapter. I mean really whats the difference. I have a friend who was asked to help stock it who was unfamiliar with the creek and someone from the chapter told him there are no brook trout in there which is obviously not accurate. I bet there is a lot of by catch back up in there if it gets that many cars troutbert. It is a completely undeveloped valley with mature hemlocks and mountain laurels, amazing.
It's a huge difference.
our chapter has a stocking coordinator I’ll have to ask
I'm thinking I heard that part of Young Womans was possibly one of them. The problem I'm seeing though is that the majority of anglers primarily fish for stocked trout and are going to have very few options in Clinton County. As much as I don't like it, stocked trout control the majority of license sales and I don't see any way around that. If you take Bakers, Hyner, Young Womans, off the stocking list and local license sales in Clinton County are definitely going to drop. I know some people who only fish those streams and are nothing but meat hunters and without those streams being stocked their fishing days will be done. I personally don't mind that but I know the PFBC doesn't want to lose license sales.
For people in the Renovo area, going to Kettle Creek and Kettle Creek Lake is not very far. For people in the Lock Haven area, Pine Creek is not very far. And the lower end of Young Womens Creek, from the confluence of the branches down through North Bend, is probably well below Class A, and probably will remain stocked. In the past I fished YWC on opening day and that lower end was very popular. There were big crowds, right there near the houses.
That rail trail is drivable above the gate (not open to the public except on occasion) so I’m certain the use that. There are many places where the trail is a short walk to the creek.
