Illegal to fish now ???

I passed by Pike Run heading into California, PA on Tuesday and Thursday of this week.  There were at least 4 folks each time fishing at the park area.  This is NOT a delayed harvest portion of the stream and will be stocked for opening day.... if it's not already.  Shouldn't that area be closed as of now ?   I pulled into the lot, but didn't see any signs stating it was closed until opening day.   The stream is still on the list to be stocked... Washington County.

pike run is an approved stream all the way up to daiseytown.

http://www.fish.state.pa.us/county.htm

Rick

Well then maybe a deputy should make a few rounds there.  These guys obviously don't know that because they are in plain view right by the walking track.

Maybe they think they won't get caught

I don't think they care. It's pretty common for people to fish Pike Run out long before the season starts. I've actually met local people who were proud to proclaim that they empty the stream out with dip nets and dynamite. I've never made a big deal out of it. If someone is hard up enough to eat a fish out of that sewage infused runoff stream to begin with they must be in pretty bad shape.

If you have a problem with it, man up and go tell the guys fishing that the season is closed. It's not hard to do.

If you have a problem with it, man up and go tell the guys fishing that the season is closed. It's not hard to do.

 
Partner, I assure you, I don't have a problem "manning up" and telling a bunch of college kids that what they are doing is illegal.  If you re-read my 1st post, I was unsure that Pike Run was even still on the stocking list.  Why would I go running off at the yap, screaming at people, when I am unsure myself ?  That's a good way to get egg on your face.... amongst other things.  The PFBC would put signs up saying the season was closed until XXXX.  There were no signs posted there, which I'm sure added to them not knowing.  But you know what they say.... Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

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it is your business if you pay for a license to be able to fish for those trout come opening day!

it is your business if you pay for a license to be able to fish for those trout come opening day!

I don't. I but a license because it's required by law.

If your speaking of Rotary Park, that place is closed till opening day however if you were about 2 or 3 miles outside of Cal, there is a delayed harvest section thats open right now.

Ronnie

^^^ great pos righ deer'

DuUd,

  This is NOT a delayed harvest portion of the stream and will be stocked for opening day.... if it's not already.  Shouldn't that area be closed as of now ?   I pulled into the lot, but didn't see any signs stating it was closed until opening day.

What part of these three sentences ring unclear ?   My question....  "Shouldn't that area be closed as of now ? " should allude to the fact that I was unaware of a reg. change, and that this portion of the stream in the past, was an "Approved" water, not a DHALO.   This really isn't hard to grasp.   Being there was a slight chance that the reg. changed, and possibly may have even taken this hubcap infested sludge-hole off the stocking list, I wasn't going to pull over and let these DuUd's have it.   That's not good policy in my book.   Upon finding out that it was still on the stocking schedule, I called the SW Region to inform them of what I witnessed.  Maybe it will result in increased patrols, maybe they will put a few signs up denoting it is now off limits until the opener.  Again, what is so hard to understand ?   The prior fella just wanted to flex a "net muscle" and tell me to MAN UP. 
 
 

  You said nothing then ( when it might have helped", but posted here later ( where it won't).

 
And what makes you so sure that posting here won't help ?   Those DuUd's may be reading this forum between their classes (more than likely Cal U boys, can't be sure though).  Combine that with a phone call, stepped up patrol, and possibly some signage, and I believe I declare you wrong in your summarization.

This is dumb.

I would have sat there and let them fish, whoever needs a trout that bad must have a reason.

"I wasn't going to pull over and let these DuUd's have it. That's not good policy in my book."

That's not what I suggested. I suggested that you might have let them know the regs as you believed them to be, and that they might want to check them to be "safe". Not confrontation "manning up", just a friedly word of advice that they may have appreciated. What's so hard to understand about THAT?

"Those DuUd's may be reading this forum between their classes (more than likely Cal U boys, can't be sure though)."

Yup, the odds are only about 1 in 10,000 that they are

The PF&BC is not in the habit of posting "closed season" signs nor should they. Anglers are expected to know the rules.

Yup, the odds are only about 1 in 10,000 that they are

 
Not sure where you are from, but the odds that they were college DuUd's is about 90/10.... in favor of college DuUd's.  Got nothing against college DuUd's, was one myself before most of the posters here were born, but coming from other lands, they aren't up on the rules of that stream more than likely.  That stream empties into the Mon about 1/4 mile from where the park is.  Signage would help.
 

The PF&BC is not in the habit of posting "closed season" signs nor should they. Anglers are expected to know the rules.

 
The PGC most certainly is in the habit of posting "closed season" signs.  At least they were.  They also smatter DHALO signs in those respective areas.  Can a guy get a GPS and follow the lat/long coordinates marking start/finish points on those streams ?  of course, if they care to go to the trouble, however, signs are a nice aid for such things.
 
 
Glad to hear they were out and about.