Wayne Knight wrote:

"Jack Tucker" wrote in message
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Their first attack is
directed at PA's "Delayed Harvest - Artificial Lures only"
water within the Commonwealth. This water is currently open
year round to fly fishing and spin fishing with artificial
lures; legal sized fish may be taken during the period from
June 15th to Labor Day, though most of the fishing by both
the spin fishers and fly anglers is C & R.


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The current recommendation is that the water under consideration be opened
to "harvest" by bait fisherman during the period of June 15 through
Labor Day.


sorry, delayed harvest may be the latest "greatest' thing in trout fisheries
"management", imo, there is something seriously wrong with stocking an area
and desiginating it C&R only.

I agree with your sentiment. C&R seems stupid to me in a put and take
fishery.

I'm not as familiar with eastern waters as I am with those in the
Rockies, but it seems to me that there are numerous waters back east
that are being stocked that could be better managed with less stocking
and possibly more restrictive limits. Montana did a series of studies on
the effects of stocking in waters that have good natural reproduction
and found that the stocking of catchables actually reduces the number
and size of the fish in those waters.

Willi