Browns

Just read the post about some loser chucking a snagged brown in the air at the wall. I believe this year was supposed to have a "run" of returning browns, not too large yet but with potential in a couple more years (if folks have enough restraint to release them now). Up till now I haven't heard any mention. For you guys that have made it out, are you catching / seeing many browns? More than years past? Too early to tell?

But, of course.

Here's some of what I found about the brown trout stocking...

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08363/938086-358.stm


The Browns are coming to Erie.

Not those Browns, who meet the Steelers today at Heinz Field.

In the spring, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission will begin resurrecting the Lake Erie brown trout fishery by planting the lake with 42,000 browns that should reach legal creel size by 2010. Another 57,000 will be stocked in 2011.

They call it a "put-grow-and-take" fishery.

"This isn't instead of steelhead, it's in addition to," said commission biologist Chuck Murray. "We'll continue to stock 1 million steelhead every year, but our goal is to also stock 100,000 browns and to have brown trout be 10 percent of our annual Erie stocking program."

Like steelhead, the browns will be 7 to 9 inches when planted to minimize predation by walleyes and northern pike, and to prevent angler harvest. Minimum size in the Erie watershed is 9 inches April 12 through September 1. Stockings will occur in the open lake and near shore.



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