Better idea... Board of directors. It may not be in the best interest of the club and fishery to have a President who can use it for personal gain. Even though Howard Wagner guides and started the MMA (and Butler show). I think the number of years he has been established in the musky world and his reputation speaks for itself. Just look at some of the fish he has released.

I thought of starting something like this just to raise money to stock fish. You cannot buy fingerlings from the F&BC but their are hatcheries in the midwest that sell them. They were about $12 per fish and average size was 9"-12". Rick Lorson told me that he thought the yough was receiving enough fish and would not want to put a different strain in with them. But he did tell me that he would not be opposed to a private club stocking the Mon. I just didn't put the time or energy in to trying to get this started but maybe now is the time for something like this.

Better idea... Board of directors

Trust me Mike,I was joking about Yuck io ghe knee Guide

Sounds like we got a lot of interest.Now what? Let me know what I can do.

If this is the only way stocking in the mon is going to happen then. What are we waiting for

Some contacts you guys can get in touch with to get started.. to see if there is potential for more stocking from the state or info on obtaining what you need to raise fingerlings on your own.

Dave Miko- Chief of the Fish Management Division (717)705-7832

Bob Lorantas- Warmwater Unit Leader (814)359-5168

I'm in for a SW PA Musky Association- I have a buddy who's attended the Moraine mtgs before and joined for 5 bucks, I can find out when the next mtg is & attend, then maybe get some ideas on what to do.
 
If anyone wants to come let me know-
 
 

ORIGINAL: carpediem

Just curious...  If they don't stock because of water quality issues, what do you hope to accomplish?  Why not just fish where the water is cleaner and the stocked fish actually survive?

I don't think they stopped stocking the Mon (in 2007ish) due to water quality but it had to do with changes in the musky program. Instead of throwing a few fish here and there they decided to concentrate on certain waters. There were several places in Sw Pa that were removed from the stocking list.. Mon River, Donegal Lake, Beaver and Ohio Rivers I believe.

A lot of the current water quality issues on the river are due to the recent dumping of frack water. I'm saying why start a big effort to raise money and stock if the river is going downhill. Hopefully it won't get bad and we could stock. I would love to help in any way to improve musky fishing in this part of the state so I don't have to drive hours north to have a decent chance at boating one.

This will explain the changes better...

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

when i was dealing with lorson last yr about bringin stocking back . after havin to prove to him that was catching muskys by sending him pics and other info. he stated he needed to check water quality first which he done that last may..his response was the pool that borders wv line water quality was too bad to introduce fish. but next pool down river quality was great so he would stock that pool. so theres a good chance rest of pools down river quality should follow suit.. so my thoughts are lets pressure them to stock more pools. last time i spoke to him he told me they had a breakthrough at the hatcheries at linesville that they got the purebreads to finally eat the pellets. which is great news cause now it wont be so exspensive to raise them now. whereas before they would only eat minnows. so there are some positives .

talked to our new biologist today bob ventorini today about stocking other pools of mon river. he said he will bring it up next meeting. he also told me they have lots of test samples that are sent off waitin on results on water quality of 10 mile creek. every one should call him and tell him u want stocking brought back to all pools of mon. THEY DONT KNOW UNLESS PEOPLE SPEAK UP!

Anyone fish the Allegheny near Freeport?  I might head out there on Thursday.  Any info would be appreciated.  I was thinking about trolling big cranks, bucktails, and maybe live shiners.  Any info on bait shops in the area would be appreciated also.

Thanks

I wouldn't suggest using live bait unless you are using a quick strike rig mortality rate is very high with live bait

ORIGINAL: carpediem

Anyone fish the Allegheny near Freeport?  I might head out there on Thursday.  Any info would be appreciated.  I was thinking about trolling big cranks, bucktails, and maybe live shiners.  Any info on bait shops in the area would be appreciated also.

Thanks

Allegheny Bait and Tackle is under the Tarentum bridge if you are coming from the south. Transues is in Kittanning if your coming from up that way. There really isn't much else in the area.

Good luck.

For sure see lots of shad at night with the spotlight

I got a 42" and 39" sunday on the allegheny on dbl 10s and had moved one more smallish fish in the last hour of light.

Yeah burn em as fast as you can, i have caught 2 out of every 3 on the big blades in the 8, wide turns and they usually can't resist them. I have alot of faith in them during the warm water period over the past 3 seasons.