Suggestions For Pa Fish & Boat Commission

Reduce statewide panfish limit to 20 per species per day. I think it is really needed on smaller bodies of water (<300 acres).

Don't close trout lakes to fishing before trout season. Some of my favorite lakes for crappie are closed at peak times because of pelletheads.

Block Dr. Trout's number on all Commission phones?

On a more serious note, deregulate any stream capable of supporting a wild trout population.

1. Speed limits on lakes instead of horsepower restrictions.

2. Speed limits on lakes instead of horsepower restrictions.

ORIGINAL: Cold

On a more serious note, deregulate any stream capable of supporting a wild trout population.

 
Hey Cold Im not being a jackwagon here, but what do you mean by "deregulate"? Do you mean less restrictions and greater access? If so, wouldnt that be counter-productive to supporting the "wilds"?

ORIGINAL: Cold

Block Dr. Trout's number on all Commission phones?

On a more serious note, deregulate any stream capable of supporting a wild trout population.

I ran into something along these lines this year over your way. A nice spring creek littered with reproducing brookies added to the stocking list.

It was outstanding in my mind because the day I was there, a guy starts telling me about these "red bellied rainbows" that they stocked in there, and there was an unusual amount of fishing traffic where there is usually virtually none.

I come home and run down the list to find that this run had been stocked, which seemed odd, since you can't drift a fly 2 feet without a smaller brookie hitting it.

There also seemed to be a whole lot of contention about this in Potter county when I was there this year.

[edited for over usage of the word "over"]

"1. Speed limits on lakes instead of horsepower restrictions."

Please! Then we can have how many 20 page, tear filled threads? Filled with cries, "I was only X over the limit". "There's no way they could have known how fast I was going", "They only pick on X, or Y type boats, or guys with Z"

ORIGINAL: Riverbum

ORIGINAL: Cold

On a more serious note, deregulate any stream capable of supporting a wild trout population.

Hey Cold Im not being a jackwagon here, but what do you mean by "deregulate"? Do you mean less restrictions and greater access? If so, wouldnt that be counter-productive to supporting the "wilds"?

If the stream can keep trout going on its own, stop stocking it and take all fishing-related special regs. off of it. Obviously bag limits, size restrictions, litter laws, etc. would still apply, i'm talking things like DHALO, CRFFO, WBTE, Class A, etc.

Reduce the number of steelhead being stocked and channel that money to enhancing some NATIVE species instead of the INVASIVE ones.

I'd like to see them change some bass regulations, especially on lake Arthur.  First thing I'd do would be lower the limit during winter. Either to 2 fish over 15",  or I'd settle for a limit of 4, 12" minimum size, but only 2 can be over 15". I think that would make a difference. 

I'd also limit the number of total tournaments that can be held on a lake during the year. I enjoy fishing in them, but it's gotten out of hand.

1) Open up more waters for cast nets (with a reasonable size restriction on the net size)
    and make the permits good statewide, not the 'per body of water' BS they do now.
 
2) Reduce the panfish limits, impose slot limits where fishing pressure is heavy on them and take
    catfish and move them into their own classification and put limits of 6 (combined species) on them
    with only one allowed to be over 32" (unless fishing paylakes, with receipt as proof). The problem
    with this one is that it won't do much good if it isn't ENFORCED!!! 
 
  2a) to go with restrictions for #2 above. Figure out a fair way to have a child's limit on panfish
       further reduced so that a parent can't take 6 kids fishing, each keeping their 40 or 50 fish and
       wiping out an area, and potentially a small body of water, during a season of over fishing. And
       I do know of a small lake where that happened and stricter limits and enforcement may have
       helped.

decent launches and longer dock time is cool with me.

youll never satisfy people with A, B, or C. just sayin'

hey wayne part of tour wish came true this yr...fish and boat didnt just stock tigers but also stocked pures in our pool on the mon.. 1,700 tigers and 5,000 pures bob ventorini 3 rivers biologist called me personally to tell me what they put in.

Permit use of cast nets and upsize them to a size that is actually common.

Move the "fish for free" days further apart.

ORIGINAL: musky maniac

oops sorry, correction there were total 5,000 skies stocked 1,700 tigers and 3,300 pures dont know what i was thinkin geuss was wishful thinkin of 5,000 pures. anyway big news is they are finally able to get pures to eat the food pellets at the hatcheries now therefore its just as cheap to raise pures as it is to raise tigers now, before they had to feed pures minnies therefore was much more expensive to raise those bad boys.

Does that mean Powerbait is now the secret weapon for muskies as well as stocked trout?

1. More special regulation trout waters. Less than one percent of Pennsylvania's approved trout waters have any sort of special regulation.

Oh, and I've seen an argument on here by Jolie that people who use special regs areas should pay more because special regs areas limit the use of the water. Ok, I'll pay a percentage license increase that equals the percentage of approved waters under special regs.

2. Focus on wild, or at least self sustaining populations of fish. There are streams in SW pa that should not be stocked. Its a waste. Focus on warmwater species for these streams, I'll catch rock bass just as happily as 9 inch stockies.