Abnormal catch

[Nymph-wristed]

Is Crabby stocked? I thought Crabby had brookies at one point but they were gone. Last I heard, I thought the Crabby restoration hadn't gone as well as planned.

They were planted from another creek in the region with natural reproduction, I believe.

 

[Nymph-wristed]

That's kinda my thought as well. I feel like we would've had more instances of this happening.

My only other thought is schools raising fry for classes that are later released. I think that was the case a few years back on Pigeon or Allegheny creek.

Nice surprise though.

I think TIC is all bows now?

 

[gozu]

I think TIC is all bows now?

Correct, this was apparently years ago on the Wyomissing in Mohnton, before transitioning to rainbows.

Mike that post's here frequently confirmed that a school had released them in about a 100 yd stretch of creek.

At work a few years ago we had a 12" catfish fall out of the sky and land next our plane. Clumsy hawk dropped it.

 

[sarce]

Obviously a brook trout, that appears to be wild. I've heard there's a trib to upper Valley that holds natives. Don't know how accurate that is though. Either way, that's a very unusual Valley catch!

The trib Crabby Creek that others are referencing is a trib to Little Valley which enters Valley kind of in the mid section (so it's not that close to Valley headwaters). It could be from there in theory but it's a long shot since those brook trout have been gone for a few years now, and it looks stocked anyway. I've caught large stocked rainbows in a section of Valley before, some landowner was dumping a few in their front yard.

Additionally the trout habitat in upper portions of Little Valley has been utterly destroyed by runoff the past 10-15 years and I think Valley itself is in far better shape than Little Valley re: potential for supporting a few stray brook trout. It's not impossible for there to be a few wild brook trout somewhere in that watershed but that particular fish isn't.

 

[TYoung]

Correct, this was apparently years ago on the Wyomissing in Mohnton, before transitioning to rainbows.

Mike that post's here frequently confirmed that a school had released them in about a 100 yd stretch of creek.

At work a few years ago we had a 12" catfish fall out of the sky and land next our plane. Clumsy hawk dropped it.

One time I had a dead squirrel hit my driver's side mirror while driving down the highway. I looked in my rear view mirror and saw a hawk picking up the squirrel on the side of the road. It had dropped it from above the highway.

 

[AndyP]

At one time many years ago some brookies were transplanted from another stream into Crabby Creek during on of the many Crabby Creek restorations. I think the only thing actively happening at Crabby now is some water temperature monitoring and some storm water remediation projects when funds are available. A brookie caught up by the nature preserve is most probably a implant from someone.