Stocking Report

bryanfletcher · #1 11-17-2009, 09:45 PM

I have been fishing a stream that is hatchery supported, but according to the stocking chart it is only stocked in March and April. I have been having great luck these past couple days and was wondering if they stock and do not always post it?

wildmttrout · #2 11-18-2009, 12:51 AM

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Originally Posted by bryanfletcher

I have been fishing a stream that is hatchery supported, but according to the stocking chart it is only stocked in March and April. I have been having great luck these past couple days and was wondering if they stock and do not always post it?

Depends on what type of stream you are fishing. Is is a put and take fishery or a put, grow, and take fishery? If the latter then fish may be present year-around.

bigmoon · #3 11-18-2009, 05:31 PM

Any tributaries that contain wild trout or are stocked by private sources?

garagebeer · #4 11-22-2009, 09:40 AM

someone told me once hatchery fish are at least 8 inches. so if any of the ones you're catching are smaller they were probably born there.

bryanfletcher · #5 11-23-2009, 01:52 PM

One of the streams I fish is Cullowhee Creek which runs through the WCU campus. I am starting to think that the biology department could have possibly stocked it. Some of the fish are over 12 inches so figured those were stockers but many are under.

wilhelm · #6 11-23-2009, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by bryanfletcher

One of the streams I fish is Cullowhee Creek which runs through the WCU campus. I am starting to think that the biology department could have possibly stocked it. Some of the fish are over 12 inches so figured those were stockers but many are under.

My son left there in May 2008 with a Biology degree. He never spoke of the Biology Dept. raising trout or stocking them.

I'm wondering, with the higher flows on the Tuck this year, if you aren't seeing fish coming up from the DH and Hatchery Supported sections.

wilhelm

wilhelm · #7 11-23-2009, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by wildmttrout

Depends on what type of stream you are fishing. Is is a put and take fishery or a put, grow, and take fishery? If the latter then fish may be present year-around.

I may be mixed up about terms and such, but as far as I know NCWRC doesn't really stock using a put, grow and take methodology. The only thing they put in the water is catchable sized fish, so I view it strictly as put and take. (Of course there is consideration given to DH regulations.)

wilhelm

sprringer · #8 11-23-2009, 04:05 PM

Go get a tour of the fish room. There are some fish in there that would blow your mind. Some old browns were there during my 4 years that would make you cry they are so old and huge....

A former NC state record was caught in Cullowhee Creek too, I thought, but now can't find any old records. I may just be imagining that, but thought I read it at WCU when I was in school. I have been known to be wrong once in a while. Its a great gem to have on campus. Enjoy it brother.....

phg · #9 11-23-2009, 09:14 PM

NC only stocks trout as put and take. All fish are "catchable size" meaning 10" to 12". After being stocked, a few trout will migrate upstream looking for food and better habitat. If there are no barriers, that is most likely where the big ones came from. Of course, there's bound to be some natural reproduction as well. Many of our trout streams have a fair mix of stream born and stocked fish. Half the fish I catch in the Davidson are clearly stream born.

Put grow and take is used for warm water fisheries. Striped bass, hybrids, bream, and a few others are stocked in lakes as fingerlings, in hopes that a few will grow big enough to catch.