A collection of fishing, biking, kayaking videos that I am making in the great outdoors of beautiful Pennsylvania. I am a Pittsburgher transplanted into the fishing nirvana of Central PA, thus the channel name. Enjoy!
Bro, the one in the intro you dropped them right on top of those rocks. From that height it’s hard for them to survive that being how they are all stressed out from this process in the first place.
We used to float stock the Cohocton river here in NY State but then they went to bucket stocking and driving a 4wd truck as far as they could on some spots then walk and bucket. But after COVID the DEC does it themselves without volunteers and they just bucket the easy access spots at the bridges. 🙄
I live in southwest PA most streams don't have the depth or run cold enough in the middle of summer that trout survive. Occasionally you catch a "native" think the fish commission would be better off improving the lakes for pike walleye and muskie. Native fish to this area then wasting time and money on these bathtub fish.
Agreed I am from Pittsburgh my experience was that the creeks don't really sustain cold water fish like trout in Western PA like the central PA streams do.
@yinzerfishing you might want to put the floats up higher so it sits lower in the water, and don't make your opening so big, I used the cutout as a lid on mine in case you go thru faster water, I wish I had a Pic of mine but you get the idea
I can remember NJ use too float stock, now these guys on the truck today off the bridges only , they don't walk them up stream or down. I fished in NJ since I was a kid, no I go to NC, they even the people stock...
I watched a video or two on you tube that had them doing brookies as well. Guess they don't do as many figuring creeks already have a native population? No idea
I was helping out with the stocking the other week. Left before the relief truck came. If you haven't fished down by the Mirror Pool give it a shot. There's some bigguns in there.
I live in RI, they are supposed to stock 800 per Pound, stream, river or lake. I can tell you this, you can see some ponds don’t get stocked well. No way, 800 where dropped in, other places are stocked perfectly.
If you check out some of my other videos, you will see I'm actually doing mostly catch and release of wild brown trout, less of the stocked fish. I am not sure if you have those type of streams in RI. They are beautiful fish.
Yeah I hear you, idk I get a lot of use out of my license though, also we piss away so much tax money here in PA on stupid stuff, I'm figuring this is one of the better things money gets spent on.
Nice to see. I take a week in April to fish locally. Catch and release all but 1 each year. Then hit the lakes by boat the rest of the year. Stripers are a blast to catch in local lakes.
Good question! I have been watching the fish post-stocking. I have not observed any issues to date. The WCO had me check water temperature prior to putting them in (49F). Its seems the main issue is oxygen deprivation. We are instructed to put them in within two minutes of leaving the truck. I have also observed that after float stocking the trout come up to the surface to "gulp" air.
I've never fished that stream but why so many buckets in the same spot we run them up and down the streams to spread the fish out. I know they do swim up and down but most fish will stay together
Hi Rich definitely it would be best to spread them out but it’s a function of the number of volunteers to bucket them in. In this case there was only a few of us. The other issue in this case was the broken down truck which delayed getting the trout in the water. So the trout were getting stressed by the decreasing oxygen in the tanks, the thought was to get them out as quickly as possible.
