15" wild brown
15" wild brown
Best fight this year. Really solid fish
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Re: 15" wild brown
Now thats a fish!!! I love the big double blue dots too.
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Re: 15" wild brown
ah beauty
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Well done. Caught in NJ?
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Re: 15" wild brown
Nice Markus. Beautiful fins on that fish.
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Re: 15" wild brown
they have removed some stockings from a few streams/stretches lately, i hope they continue especially in the smaller creeks that dont even offer a good stockie-fishery.
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Nice fish.
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Re: 15" wild brown
Usually the answer is because that stream or river doesn't produce nearly enough wild trout to stop stocking it. Right now, all eyes should be on the upper 9 miles of the SBR which has gone unstocked for several years now. I live here and have watched the number of anglers slowly dwindle each year during that time. Pretty soon we should have ample large browns and some native brookies in decent numbers since the stringer crew has been sent elsewhere.
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I look at stocking streams with a decent wild population as a double edged sword. It gives the "stringer crew" some easy hatchery fish to catch and take home and hopefully leave the wilds alone. You also run the risk of them catching and keeping gorgeous wild fish like that.
If you stop stocking the "string crew" will still come back for a little and all they will be catching are hold overs and wild fish. Like Rusty said, eventually, they will start to go elsewhere.
If you stop stocking the "string crew" will still come back for a little and all they will be catching are hold overs and wild fish. Like Rusty said, eventually, they will start to go elsewhere.
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Re: 15" wild brown
I think every time I've fished up there since they stopped stocking I've had it virtually to myself, I don't fish it often though, I have other WTS closer to me that don't eat me for lunch like the SBR does.Rusty Spinner wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 9:21 am
Usually the answer is because that stream or river doesn't produce nearly enough wild trout to stop stocking it. Right now, all eyes should be on the upper 9 miles of the SBR which has gone unstocked for several years now. I live here and have watched the number of anglers slowly dwindle each year during that time. Pretty soon we should have ample large browns and some native brookies in decent numbers since the stringer crew has been sent elsewhere.
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Re: 15" wild brown
I like the upper beginning stretchDrossi wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 12:33 pmI think every time I've fished up there since they stopped stocking I've had it virtually to myself, I don't fish it often though, I have other WTS closer to me that don't eat me for lunch like the SBR does.Rusty Spinner wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 9:21 am
Usually the answer is because that stream or river doesn't produce nearly enough wild trout to stop stocking it. Right now, all eyes should be on the upper 9 miles of the SBR which has gone unstocked for several years now. I live here and have watched the number of anglers slowly dwindle each year during that time. Pretty soon we should have ample large browns and some native brookies in decent numbers since the stringer crew has been sent elsewhere.
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