Seriously thou, since "lockdown" I been reading some of the comments on the fish commission page on Facebook, freeking gold especially from the stock truck tailgaters 😂

PS We should have surprise openers every year

PSS Remember they are just dumfezh...

I don't do those high priced classy web sights but I agree, maybe like a "Nerf shotgun" start 'cept nobody would know what day, week, month. 👍

So, anyways you catchin' any them dummies?? Fish I mean??

There are a lot of reasons that people are ticked off. Yes, there are some guys that want to catch the biggest dumbest of the trout they stocked and hitting it hard opening day is the only way they know how. They don't want to work for anything and get their full $8 investment worth. Could be the same guys that stand around a hole all day throwing everything but bullets at the one orange fish. 
 
Now in all seriousness, they was a lot going on to get people riled up. We are all on edge and stressed anyways so anything on top of that is just worse. First, was the lack of regulation enforcement which just allowed poaching for weeks up until that shotgun start. If you are a regulation follower, you got sloppy seconds many days in. Then there was poor distribution of the stocked fish, basically everything was dumped in one or two holes where the truck can get close. With no volunteers allowed, it was up to mother nature to distribute the fish. There was also supposed to be more larger fish stocked this year and more golden creamsicles. If that happened in this area of the state, there is no evidence of it on social media or apps like fish brain (didn't happen or poaching). Then On top of that, a weekday shotgun start screwed the essential workers and people working their 40+ from home. People couldn't get out until Saturday or Sunday after hearing that they might make more money on unemployment and when they finally get to show up, all they find is trashed spots that have been fished for weeks.
 
Finally, and really the one I'm personally bothered by, is that the kids got screwed this year if they wanted until opening day or that weekend. Grown****men in waders crowding holes/spots 5 feet off the parking lot with two palermineos that the kids should have been given first chances at. If your'e geared up to go wading and you choose to spend 3 hours on the first evening hovering over a spot right by your car and dad's with kids are made to walk up/down the creek trying to find a straggler, your'e a special piece of ****. 
 
There are probably more things to worry about but these are the ones I've seen across all the interwebs and most of them have a point for discussion. Yeah, with this virus we have bigger things to worry about but it's salt in the wound for a lot of people that followed the rules. 

I think those fake synthetic goldens  palominos  whatever you call them shouldnt even be stocked. all they do is give away holding spots for other trout ,, spots that the average truck chaser normally walk by BUTTTTTT when they see one  its like  hey i caught 3v other fish trying to catch this hunk of gold,,, its like watching a  adult easter egg hunt for them   oooooh theres a palomino guess i will camp out here all day lol lol    catch a palomino  keep it   because the other trout will thank you for it lol     jus my 2 cents lol

Some of the comments on the fish com. Site got me cracking up so many people crying about the fish and can care less that they can die from a virus. I rather have the waterways open so I Can fish for other fish and not get bothered by anyone. I wish they would do away with this invasive trout crap. The only thing that’s good about it is for teaching kids how to fish.

In my area, there wasn’t much grumbling about the surprise opening, but a lot about other things trout and PAF&B connected.

The first was not permitting volunteers to help stock — even way, way, way before limited travel, etc. This fundamentally killed spreading the fish out a away from the road (unless there was a high water event) with those that will actually bother to carry buckets (and there are plenty that would and do do so) and float stocking. A friend float stocks a section of creek near his house (has for more than a decade), but was told “no” this year. He made arrangements with the local WCO to have buckets filled (he supplied them) and left in his driveway so he could do the float as usual. But the WCO was stopped by Harrisburg.

Many of the streams local to me also get supplemental stocking by sportsmen’s clubs. One particular club stocks 10,000 trout (to the Fish Commission 4,000) and was told they needed to do it (the entire operation — netting the ponds, transfer to vehicles, transporting to the stream, and stocking) with three people — total, according to a club member that volunteers for the operation which he said typically takes 50. When they said they could not do it with three guys, they were told they couldn’t stock — even though this was, again, before the travel limits. I’m not sure other clubs ran into this or not.

Word on the street (not really, word from reliable, inside PAF&B sources), is that a significant portion of hatchery rainbows were lost over the winter, so stocking wasn’t exactly as advertised (no volunteers to witness either). In streams where the catch ratios typically runs 5-6 rainbows to 1 brown, my experience this season has been the reverse, way more browns than rainbows, so who knows.

I helped stock several streams in beaver and Lawrence county before the cutoff, and there was no shortage of nice fish, opening day was absolutely great and for days after we have been catching fish, we are still catching fish as   of yesterday, I wish they would do the SURPRISE  OPENING every year ! If more guys would throw more back they could extend their trout fishing quite a bit. anyways liked the opening day this year.

Different districts, different rules, I guess.

Only thing I’m peaved abahht was no kids day before the masses were allowed in. This did very little if anything to prevent crowds, of that I am sure. What it DID prevent was many kids from getting first crack at unmolested trahht. Normal place I take my kids to had dozens of fish in each hole last year. This year it was picked clean.
It’s just another indication that our govt had absolutely no idea how to handle all this.
And please spare me the “if it saves a life.” stuff. This virus doesn’t even affect kids, and is overblown in general. 55 deaths in Allegheny county with 1.2 million people!! Numbers don’t lie!

Children are resilient, they'll recover......