Stocking Trout

[Billfish715]

The fall trout stocking program gets underway next week and the barrels into which they will be dumped are ready. Have you seen the river levels lately? Oh my! There is some promise that early next week we will have some substantial rain from a storm now forming in the Gulf of Mexico. We certainly need whatever water Mother Nature can supply otherwise the trout will be tossed into streams giving them little chance of ever swimming more than a few yards up or down stream. They might as well be put into barrels. It's no secret where the fish will be. Just find any deep hole near a stocking point and have at it.

[AndyS]

Just hit one of the MANY scum hole duck ponds that will be stocked with these big trout.

[thmyorke1]

Wow it's already next week. I can see it now, those spots I scouted on the NB... ah it's wonderful... it's me not catching any trout! HAHA

Ill just excuse myself fishing for smallies with mini floating rapalas and jigs.

[Eskimo]

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I'll be out there doing a rain dance.
If you see someone on the shoreline wearing a loincloth and feathers dancing around in a circle , please don't call the Park Police.


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[logs22]

Originally Posted by AndyS

Just hit one of the MANY scum hole duck ponds that will be stocked with these big trout.

Take it easy on the scum hole duck ponds, I happened to pull my PB Bow out of one of them last Feb. Having a local pond stocked with fall breeders provides me and many others who don't have access to good trout streams the ability to fish (and catch) through the winter (I.e maintain sanity through the long cold months)....

[Mark B.]

Originally Posted by logs22

Take it easy on the scum hole duck ponds, I happened to pull my PB Bow out of one of them last Feb. Having a local pond stocked with fall breeders provides me and many others who don't have access to good trout streams the ability to fish (and catch) through the winter (I.e maintain sanity through the long cold months)....

Amen, brother.

[baetis]

Somehow standing under a bridge with a dozen other anglers in a circle surrounding a 2 1/2 foot deep hole with stockies stacked like cord wood is much nobler than fishing a scummy pond.

[thmyorke1]

Originally Posted by baetis

Somehow standing under a bridge with a dozen other anglers in a circle surrounding a 2 1/2 foot deep hole with stockies stacked like cord wood is much nobler than fishing a scummy pond.

You make it seem that river fishing is confined to the nearest clearing on the river bank or the bridge.

In actuality many people hike up and down river to explore, not only to find better spots to fish but because its a more enjoyable and scenic way of spending time outside (for me at least)

While I'm neutral about where trout are stocked; I'd obviously admit stocking them where they could holdover and supply a better trouting experience is better.

The kinds of folk that prefer to sit and fish can still fish off the bridges too. But I understand a pond supplies more area for that activity to prevent crowding.

[tycomps]

Hopefully Nate will help levels.

[Castaway]

Weren’t the water levels even lower this time last year?