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Originally Posted by Drossi
If you fish 99% of the time in general regulation areas, then I guess you catch stocked trout 99% of the time as well. I'm sure the number of holdover trout you catch in those general regulation waters is minimal at best. It's why you fish 1% of the time in wild trout or special regulation waters. Why is that?
The discussion has been about fishing in catch and release areas for trout that don't seem to survive despite what seem to be very suitable conditions. If the purpose of these areas is to ultimately allow more trout to "holdover" and the results show that the results are not fulfilled, then the program should be revisited and reevaluated. The streams that are now C&R are not and have not produced enough "wild trout" to be added to the wild trout stream list despite the stocking of those streams for over a century.
The streams have to be stocked or what fishing we know of today will be lost and forgotten and the fishermen with it.
Vendetta? Hardly! Scientific research? Definitely!
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No I fish 99% in general regs water because it the closest to my house and I've been fishing it for 40 years (I have limited time and I'm nostalgic). And contrary to your "belief" I can usually find holdover fish just about any time I go and a wild brown on occasion. Hell I usually pick one off in March right before the season closes cause after 6 months in the river they taste a hell of a lot better than when they are stocked.
Just cause a special regs section of BFB doesn't holdover fish or produce many wilds doesn't mean other streams don't. Even streams that aren't on any special regs list. Just look at this board, more than one member posts pics of trout that are either A) holdover stockies or B) wild fish, or do you contend they are fakes?
Besides your all wound up over stockies, they'll just make more of them next year! And who cares if the birds get them, they have to eat too. Plus I don't here any mention of the feeding frenzies that go on in the stocked lakes when the trout are released among stripers, pike, pickerel, muskies all lurking below for the dinner bell.
I stand by vendetta.
