Thanks for the tips Indisguiz.
 
I'm still finding it difficult to wrap my head around the idea of paying that much for the "priveledge" of fishing public water.
 
Anybody wanna give me 30K to fish the yough? I know spots so secret that even the fish can't find them!
 
 

Skip, what does it say there below Click on the Red stream sections if
 
you have more money than ?
 
I blew it up, but can't tell.

Looks like it was tailgating a king that stopped short !

You decide........

ORIGINAL: Brown_Trout

ORIGINAL: Skip16503

Ask and ye shall receive 



And yet another that has been brougt to my attention  LOL

lol...looks like the bottom one is a new one

 
So, DB and Lefty look to be more than just friends+strang fish=something fishy going on?
Chris

I enjoy the fact how so many people talk down on DB, yet still fish very close to or within his property for these fish. PA has soooooooooooooo much stream to fish.....get out there and fish it.

See what money does to a person???   lol.. me to tommy i fish close to his prop, to with great success..

Is it legal to stock public water? Not that I'm aware of...

So do this mean we the people can still fish the property he bought up? Or do we just have access through the water between the low and high water marks?

hahahha those pictures are hilarious Skip that is so funny.  I cant stand Donny Beaver I thought my brother joined a section of stream in the Central part of PA but it was another Club thank god, he was about to get Razzed real hard. 
 
Sculpin14
 
that brown looks like a nice bodied fish from what little the picture shows but good lord, that schnozz is hideous.  I wonder if that happened in the hatchery from either getting bit or getting slammed into the wall in the rearing pen or happened later in its life?? Interesting catch, certainly one to remember. 
 
I have no familiartity with Beaver's property as Iv'e never made it out to that region to fish before, but you guys who do some private property bumping out there do you encounter these on a semi-regular basis???  Very interesting.

That was exactly my point Esox.  Spruce Creek used to hold a few tremedous native trout.  I mean, 15-20 inch natives existed.  That's a ridiculously large fish for such a small stream.  That right there speaks volumes for the quality and diversity this stream used to hold. You're lucky to even run into a native now.  Last one I recall a buddy caught, about 3 inches long in 2004.   Take a look at Allan's brook trout at Spruce Creek Outfitters if you ever stop in.
 
I'll stick up for Beaver and say that the downfall cannot be totally blamed on him.  He certainly made it worse and sped up the process.  Harpster and the farms along Warriors Mark Run, Halfmoon Creek certainly contribute to polluting the stream, they always have.  Harpster didn't used to own the whole stretch -- he owned bits and pieces from PA furance to Franklinville.  Now they control the whole thing, that's a quite a few miles of Spruce water.  They feed fish too, that's where Beaver got the idea.  Pretty sure Harpster's are now the largest diary farm on the east coast.  All runoff goes to Spruce.  That's a lot of cow $hit~  I think Penn State now run some type of water pump in Strongstown from Spruce's headwaters.  Just 3-4 years ago,  Spruce used to have twice the flow it does now.
 
Pretty sure the fish commission recently deemed Spruce no longer a class A wild trout stream.  Anything I've ever mentioned about altering flow or heavy feeding .. Answer I got was "they shouldn't be, we'll look into it."  It only makes perfect sense that heavy feeding is littering and altering stream flow could be devestating in a flood.   I did what I could.  They went and tested the diversity of the stream at the property line on the upper end of the psu water and replied back that Spruce has excellent stream quality and attached an excel document of their findings.  I will not deny it does have good quality but nothing compared to what it used to be.
 
I'm disappointed to say that just this past year there was finally a water gauge put in Spruce.  Too bad we don't have a history of stream flow records to compare to.
 
We lost one of the best.

Here's anyones new killer bait of choice for the little j etc!!!!!

How many people you think wil have this in their snoopy tackle
box this opening trout day?