krafish
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PROTECT SMALL STEELHEAD
This past run of steelhead have included a batch of small steelhead on their first run. I have never seen so many 12" and 13" fish running at the same time as the big fish. I think this may have something to do with the smolts they put in the stream last Febuary. I have fished these streams for 50 years and never seen a run of small fish (yes we get some small jacks, but never this). We need to remind fisherman that the size limit protects these fish and to use care when handling. The small fish I saw are in the mile creeks. Don't know about the West side yet.
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Cold
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Re: PROTECT SMALL STEELHEAD
2012/10/25 10:23:51
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Small fish are nothing more than an annoying by-catch. Whack em with a rock and toss them up on shore. If they survive and make their way back to the creek, they've earned their future and will be a valuable addition to the naturally reproducing steelhead gene pool.
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CroatianSensation
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Re: PROTECT SMALL STEELHEAD
2012/10/25 10:48:24
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Like veal, young steel are DELEEEEEESCIOUS! Tender young pink meat, just makes me druel....MMmmmmmmmm.
Where did you catch 'em feesh at?
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Re: PROTECT SMALL STEELHEAD
2012/10/25 11:16:23
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I caught a smolt and took it home in a minnow bucket once. Put it in a stream around home and caught it 2 weeks after. That's the furthest a PA steelhead has ever made it inland. It will probably be running Dunbar Creek by now and returning from the Mon River as a full size adult.
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slabdaddy
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Re: PROTECT SMALL STEELHEAD
2012/10/25 13:38:33
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The smaller ones are better eatin' and you can fit more of them in your creel. 12" steelhead is the perfect keeping size. They need to lower the size limit to 7" and increase creel limits to 8. Then, it might be worth fishing up there.
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Cold
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Re: PROTECT SMALL STEELHEAD
2012/10/25 13:51:43
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Loomis
I caught a smolt and took it home in a minnow bucket once. Put it in a stream around home and caught it 2 weeks after. That's the furthest a PA steelhead has ever made it inland. It will probably be running Dunbar Creek by now and returning from the Mon River as a full size adult.
Have they made it up to Route 22 yet? :P
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spoonchucker
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Re: PROTECT SMALL STEELHEAD
2012/10/25 13:53:37
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I thought the falls kept them from getting past Rt 21.
Get Informed, Get Involved, And Make A Difference. Step Up, or Step Aside The next time you say "Somebody should do something", remember that YOU are somebody. GL
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Homeboy50
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Re: PROTECT SMALL STEELHEAD
2012/10/25 14:38:43
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steelhead have not been there for 50yrs....
LIER,LIER PANTS ON FIRE.....
smoke um at the bait store......
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spoonchucker
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Re: PROTECT SMALL STEELHEAD
2012/10/25 14:44:27
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"steelhead have not been there for 50yrs.... "
Sure they were. The Blue Pike just ate all the smolts. So the runs were really, really small.
Get Informed, Get Involved, And Make A Difference. Step Up, or Step Aside The next time you say "Somebody should do something", remember that YOU are somebody. GL
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Cold
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Re: PROTECT SMALL STEELHEAD
2012/10/25 15:42:57
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Homeboy50
steelhead have not been there for 50yrs....
LIER,LIER PANTS ON FIRE.....
smoke um at the bait store......
Lier? Really?
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slabdaddy
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Re: PROTECT SMALL STEELHEAD
2012/10/25 15:51:28
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Cold
Homeboy50
steelhead have not been there for 50yrs....
LIER,LIER PANTS ON FIRE.....
smoke um at the bait store......
Lier? Really?
HAHAHAHAHAHA! Yeah, Rilley.  
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Re: PROTECT SMALL STEELHEAD
2012/10/25 16:12:21
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cbeagler
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Re:PROTECT SMALL STEELHEAD
2012/10/26 00:05:02
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Absolutely possible. I have been fishing these creeks for 35 years now and I know for sure that there were fish before that. Steelhead? yep. They called them "those big rainbow trout." Salmon? yep. The old timers use to tell of coming up to Walnut, but it was not an access yet and you were only allowed to fish the lake. One told me how he heard that they were hitting silver spoons but all he could find was a red and white dare devel. So he while his friend drove he spent his time scraping the paint off of it. We joke a lot, but you may want to respectfully consider this one.
post edited by cbeagler - 2012/10/26 11:31:14
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