T.U scores big on the Flatbrook:

[AndyS]

COUNCIL VOTE
This is not good news for those who want to bait fish in the Big Flat Brook before new regs may be put in place.

Remember that in this space it has been written that if you want to conserve your way of fishing instead of bowing to the special interest groups you darned well better make your voices heard.

The state Fish and Game Council unanimously agreed, according to Lisa Barno, chief of the Bureau of Freshwater Fisheries, to support the Division’s recommendation to make the 4.2-mile section of the Big Flat Brook catch and release only.

It has been pointed out that how many kids are introduced to trout fishing, or any fishing with a fly rod or spinners? Most likely it’s a worm on a bobber or in a stream, a worm bouncing downstream.

Fly fishing comes, maybe, later.
As I’ve said here many times, you anglers who don’t want your opportunities defined by special interest groups better make your intentions known.

As Barno says, these are proposed changes and the public comment period is this late summer and early fall. The council is supposed to review the public comments before formally adopting, or not, what they recommend.

By RICK METHOT
For The Trentonian