PFBC proposes less oversight for Class A stockings.

[Cznymph]

So, the 13 sections that PFBC will continue to stock are under C & R regs for wild trout but sections that clubs would stock wouldn't receive the C& R regs on wild trout under this proposal. Am I understanding that right?

I’m not aware of any regulations that differentiate daily bag limits between wild and stocked trout. Are some of these stocked Class A sections catch and release for all trout?

I’m no longer able to find a list of the 13 class A sections that are stocked.

The only situation I think that would have been similar would have been the brook trout enhancement waters of days gone by, where it was prohibited to harvest brook trout.

 

[Roofin' Trouter]

I’m not aware of any regulations that differentiate daily bag limits between wild and stocked trout. Are some of these stocked Class A sections catch and release for all trout?

I’m no longer able to find a list of the 13 class A sections that are stocked.

The only situation I think that would have been similar would have been the brook trout enhancement waters of days gone by, where it was prohibited to harvest brook trout.

I'm thinking it was a new thing for 2024 those sections were managed under Catch and Release Brown Trout.

 

[Cznymph]

I'm thinking it was a new thing for 2024 those sections were managed under Catch and Release Brown Trout.

You are correct.

I don’t ever fish any of those streams listed as brown trout C and R, but I do recall hearing of the regulation change in recent memory.

 

[Roofin' Trouter]

I fished a few of them when living in York Co and traveling to Potter Co because they were on the way and broke up the ride. Now that I live in Elk Co. they're out of the way.

 

[Bamboozle]

I fish a couple because they are in my backyard and in the case of one of the streams, I have been fishing it for decades and hope to die fishing there.

At the risk of being called a heretic or worse, with the exclusion of a zillion small rainbow trout whose origin I can't determine that I caught one season almost 20 years ago; in more than 40 years of fishing two particular stocked Class A sections I have caught exactly 4 stocked fish along with tons of wonderful wild brown trout.

I'm NOT a fan of the program and MAYBE it's the time of year I fish or the flies I use, but that is MY experience over MANY years...

 

[Oregon_OwlII]

How about this: no class A stocking, period. Should not even be a conversation. When you’ve got natural reproduction that could sustain a population within a system, to pollute it with inferior mush mouth genetics flies in the face of any scientific or conservation-based ideal that this organization alleges to uphold.

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Stocking Class A is an oxymoron. Absurd, yet already being done.

 

[Bamboozle]

It doesn't make it right, but it's been going for a long time before they listed the 13 Class A sections they stock today.

I could be wrong, but the Wilderness Trout Program was the first to prohibit stocking of any kind over wild fish populations and that began in 1969. I have no idea, (without checking my collection of Summary Booklets) how many streams were on that initial Wilderness Stream list but I'm pretty sure it wasn't many.

Operation Future and the A-B-C-D classification system didn't kick in until 1983 and that was only 87 sections. I have one of those early 1980's Class A lists with 98 stream sections listed. It was only two pages.

The most recent 2024 list is 40 pages...