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vmises -> RE: Is keeping stocked fish wrong? (5/1/2008 7:28:16 AM)

That is a very complex question, but generally, here are some rules:

If you catch the fish with a worm and a spinning rod, you may keep and eat the fish.

If you catch the fish with a fly rod and are using a streamer and the fish is within 29% of average size, you may keep and eat the fish.

If you catch the fish with a dry fly and wear a fancy hat, you may never keep and eat the fish.

If you catch the fish with a wet fly and feel guilty, you may keep and eat the fish but you will feel bad about it and tell no one.

If you catch the fish with a white rooster tail and you are under 21, you  may mount the fish but one day you may wonder why you did.

If your bait comes in non-biodegradable styrofoam containers and you leave them on the side of beautiful trout streams, you may keep and eat the fish.

If you own any item with Orvis on it, you must take a picture with the fish (making sure he/she smiles) and then gently release it.

Hope this helps.



Got My Pole Wet -> RE: Is keeping stocked fish wrong? (5/1/2008 11:31:10 AM)

You should publish those rules.[:D]



PeteM -> RE: Is keeping stocked fish wrong? (5/2/2008 9:48:04 AM)

What if you are wearing Orvis Trout Bum Limited Edition Underoos and a crazy hat that you stole from a vagrant while driving from town to town following the Greatfull Dead?

I'd make that fish my driving companion, feeding him buds with the hopes that he grows some cool dreds.
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vmises -> RE: Is keeping stocked fish wrong? (5/2/2008 11:38:47 AM)

I would say considering the Orvis underroos, you should test the fish's merc levels and consume it if they are high enough.  [&:]



Dream Catcher -> RE: Is keeping stocked fish wrong? (5/2/2008 12:17:04 PM)

I release 90-95% of what I catch thats my business and decision but what really flustrates me is when people catch & release they do not as SWAN stated treat the fish with respect.

I've seen countless anglers drag fish in and mishandle them prior to release. I would just like to advise a few helpful hints to releasing fish for those of us without proper guidance.

1) don't overplay the fish

2) attempt to do everything in your power to keep the fish in water or upon removing your hook wet your hands to reduce removal of the fishes slime coat ; when this is done the fish is more suseptible to disease.

3) Respect the creature ; next time you remove a trout from water try holding your breath the entire time it is out until the release ; I guarantee you it is an uncomfortable feeling ; especially if your a smoker LOL. That is how the fish feels .

4) Cut the line on deeply (stomach hooked fish ) while being extremely careful not to overpressure the line while you are cutting . A deeply hooked fish will survive if you are quick at this practice ; the hook rusts out and the fish lives to eat another day . I've caught A FEW with three leaders in their gullet this year .

5) It's ok to keep fish if everyone around does'nt like it tell em to pi$$ off. Within the law of course.

6) If you see folks mishandle fish before releasing please get involved and peacably edjucate them ; the future of our heritage depends on us helping eachother to create more oppurtunity for everyone.

Thanks for your time & Tight lines to all-  DC



Fishkid290333 -> RE: Is keeping stocked fish wrong? (5/2/2008 9:19:40 PM)

Now that walleye and bass is coming up I'll have a camera & measuring tape on the boat at all times.. replicas for now on. Thanks for the information.



CATMAN610 -> RE: Is keeping stocked fish wrong? (5/3/2008 9:49:04 PM)

This reminds me of an article Joe Gordon wrote in the johnstown paper years ago, about people with stringers of trout walking around the streams with the trouts heads sticking up out of the water. If he didn't realize the fish was going to be either skinned, filleted or gutted in a few hours and that maybe someone with fish on the stringer was having a good day,and the last thing on thier minds were the fishes heads,,,,,please.




flyfishermanPA -> RE: Is keeping stocked fish wrong? (8/5/2008 9:53:55 PM)

Personally I think its fine. They're there for a reason. And hey! Trout taste good, right?



kyler16 -> RE: Is keeping stocked fish wrong? (8/5/2008 10:27:04 PM)

I was told 90% of the fish stocked cant reproduce because they are raised sterile. it was in my one fish magazine bout how to make your very own trout pond and said most of the stocked fish dont reproduce so your best bet would be to get the fish from else where.

as far as keeping it, Its becoming ridiculously expensive to get a fish mount. so thats why i hardly keep any fish unless its 1 steelhead to get smoked or a trout from the lower yough.  I release mine to because then that section will constantly fish unless someone else goes there and harvest them. 



Estimated -> RE: Is keeping stocked fish wrong? (8/6/2008 12:29:45 AM)

Stocked Fish eat native fish eat them all.............



shemanese -> RE: Is keeping stocked fish wrong? (8/6/2008 9:07:22 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Cold

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ORIGINAL: jlh42581

Trout have been observed traveling 25 miles in one night to feed on a hatch and the returning where they were before morning.



That's pretty impressive.  Where'd you learn that, like an article or something?  If it's online, I'd enjoy reading something about that.



The Commission did some studies. Read more about the topic at:

http://www.fish.state.pa.us/newsreleases/2006/trout_study.htm

and

http://www.fish.state.pa.us/images/fisheries/info_sheets/trout_movement.pdf



SteelPerch -> RE: Is keeping stocked fish wrong? (8/6/2008 9:57:11 AM)

Most of the places the state stocks fish (trout) can't hold the fish year round.  The fish end up drying or getting eaten by Blue Herron or Raccoons.   You are better off taking it then tossing it back and letting it die in most places IMO. 



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