Empire State Trout Continued

I spent about 12 hours on various streams today. My shoulders ache. I had very little success today other than a nice brown trout. I learned quite a bit from my guide today. For example, there are very, very few catch and release streams in New York. Most streams, including most of the Beaverkill, is a "put and take" fishery. In other words, the state stocks a lot of trout, and people get to keep and eat them.

Now, that is fine in many locations, but there are NO brookie streams that are managed for brookies as is the case in Maryland. Stocked fished are dumped into the best streams by the thousands, displacing brookies to higher up in the small streams.

Trout streams and stocking in New York are seen by the state as more of a fish farming activity than an environmental management issues.