Scott Seidman wrote:




Yes. I have one such creek within 45 minutes of me. Parts are stocked,
but there are impenetrable barriers between stocked and unstocked
sections. Part of this wild section is catch and release, artificials
only. Believe it or not, a wild part with almost no access is three
fish, any size, any method during trout season, C and R artificials only
outside of trout season. This sections regs are a compromise, after the
DEC had 3 fish any size any method 12 months put up there.

There's a trib to this creek that is also unstocked with pretty
restrictive regs.

As an aside, NY is starting a two fish limit for fish over 12". This is
interesting, because the real motivation (though some in the DEC deny
this) is to try to keep two year old stockies in the water a little
longer. It's a little funny how they're managing for stockies.


Colorado used to "manage for stockies" too. Their change in policy was
an unexpected benefit of Whirling Disease. When the hatcheries got WD,
the State stopped stocking catchables in the vast majority of the
State's waters. I think that the fishing has improved since stocking was
stopped. I'm concerned that now that the State has cleaned up the
hatcheries, they will go back to massive stockings of catchables. So far
that hasn't happened.

Willi