Too low to stock?

[Michael82929]

Knowing from experience.. and stocking the waters.. if the feeder streams are too low... they will not stock them/partially stock and allocate those fish into the lakes or bigger streams.

Sometimes, its communicated through the chain when they are filling the truck at the hatchery or sometimes its a gametime decision when they get to the brook.

In past yrs, I have stocked smaller brooks only to see the outflows werent condusive to stock.

Most times when the smaller brooks are being stocked, they also have lakes to do on that run. Sometimes they decide only a fraction of what is suppose to go into the stream and decide to put more into the schedule lake stock.

Remember - the headliner streams that get stocked every week is allocated a truck for that run

When the smaller streams are being stocked, its usually several smallers stream and one or two lakes that the truck will be stocking.

They have a number for how much should go into each brook and lake. So if small stream A - gets 650 fish and its too low.. they may stock only 300 and the other 350 fish may go into the lake.

They will continue to stock the streams in low waters becuase water temps are accurate..

You would be suprised, with the stream being so low, those fish will seek deeper pools and possibly travel to bigger outflows.

If they decide not to stock streams, they will put an alert on the website.

Pops is stocking the flatbrook on friday.