A Plea for help & a head's up

"Mark W. Oots" mark_ctc@(delete this)ameritech.net wrote:

This actually reminds me a great deal of my day spent trying to fish Hickory
Run last August. The garbage, noise, screaming kids running through the
stream, tripping over my line as they went....sigh

Mark



But did ya catch anything!! that's the challenge at Hickory Run!!

Mike

(Mike) wrote in message ...
Lets put the shoe on the other foot......What if the areas that are now
artificial lures only were changed to bait slinging only how would you feel
then...... I believe there is a need for delayed harvest...I agree with the
regs in place now if you can figure them out...... i feel that if you buy a
license you should be able to fish any waters you run acrost we all pay the
same price for the license.... i don't believe in private waters either......
but i willsend an email supporting current regs because it does lean towards
the flyfisher...........


Handyman Mike
Standing in a river waving a stick

Hear, hear..let's rotate the stream regulations every year. One year
FF only, one year arificail lures, one year bait fishing, and one year
free for all (to clean out the weaklings)!!

Miiiiiiiiiiiiiikkke ya coming to Montana?? If nothing else keep me
posted on the Penn's Spring Cleaning!

Mike

Willi wrote in message news:

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


Well sure, rub in that expansive trout paradise!! Why did they start
stocking in Montanta anywho?? Must have been those Easterners moving
West.

Mike

(Michael Makela) wrote in
om:

Even though many streams in say New York or PA are a hundred miles or
more away from the Great Metropolis, the water is/was devasted by misc
problems from Acid rain, to polution, from factories supporting the
cities, to mining from over-forresting, to over-fishing.

Don't forget my personal fave, channelization for flood control. Those poor
*******s on Catherines Creek still don't know what hit them.

Scott

Ken Fortenberry wrote in

What is "float stocking" ?

Float Stocking is polluting the river from a boat or raft.
Ernie

Scott, I was a charter member of the Catherines Creek TU chapter close
to 30 years ago. Our first effort was to plant a couple of thousand
trees bankside and the second was to convince the farmers to keep
their livestock from eradicating the streambanks. Any update on
what's going on with that stream? I started fishing that stream
somewhere in the mid-sixty's the 1st of April of course. I can't ever
hear that that stream supported year round trout but rather lake-run
spawners. Bill in VA.

On 26 Feb 2004 22:05:00 -0800, (Michael
Makela) wrote:

(snipped)

I have no bias against any particular type of fisherman, but if C&R
isnt enough maybe creating specialzed sections would help? Ie. Bait
Fishing only, in addition to the artificial lures only, or Fly fishing
only sections. It would be tough to see some of the stretches go, but
the bait fisherman do have the same rights as anyone else.

Heresy, but I like the idea. Fair is fair.

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(Bill McDonald) wrote in news:66197685.0402271247.22baca08
@posting.google.com:

Scott, I was a charter member of the Catherines Creek TU chapter close
to 30 years ago. Our first effort was to plant a couple of thousand
trees bankside and the second was to convince the farmers to keep
their livestock from eradicating the streambanks. Any update on
what's going on with that stream? I started fishing that stream
somewhere in the mid-sixty's the 1st of April of course. I can't ever
hear that that stream supported year round trout but rather lake-run
spawners. Bill in VA.

I think that the DEC, as a result of a lawsuit, is dedicated to fixing what
they messed up. I don't know what state the creek is in right now, but
I'll keep an ear out.

Scott