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[roosterhavoc]

I figure there is some reason... but what is baffling is patchworking the river. If we were talking the different forks that would make sense, but on same river alternating it is beyond logic... I get upping survival of the wild trout using non barbed hooks so if the wild trout can occur any where on the river it is illogical to patch work it. (Wild ones must be released). At any rate to keep it simple I am going to go all barbless or only fish in the areas barbs are okay sections. I will take a look at the map, but I am pretty familiar with this river, I was raised on it, so I am pretty confident I know the zones. I am planing on doing bank fishing to start with. I found only one box with a couple lures and massive weights... I have no clue what happened to the other box... My granddad’s poles I will need hubby to help get at, looking at where they are I don’t want to move hubby’s things alone in the garage. The Ugly Stick I cleaned up and it looks good it’s a good pole and has a good reel.

There’s many rivers where certain sections are far more valuable than others. Some may have cooler temps, better bank cover, better insect activity which usually results in a higher density of fish in better habitat.
When it comes to wild and stocked trout. I highly doubt most can tell the difference. There’s many differences between wild, stocked and streambred fish. While some regulations seem extreme in some areas it’s almost always necessary.
Nothing better than watching some dumbass yank a rooster tail from a trouts mouth and launch the half dead bleeding fish 30 yds back into the water while feeling good about himself for “catch and release”.

 

[flypen]

New addition to the family, 5 weeks old.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

New addition to the family, 5 weeks old.
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Oh cute... enjoy. I just added some more doggy things I found organizing to the box in storage... I miss our dog.

 

[flypen]

This is my first Great Pyrenees, I hope he'll be as good as his parents.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

There’s many rivers where certain sections are far more valuable than others. Some may have cooler temps, better bank cover, better insect activity which usually results in a higher density of fish in better habitat.
When it comes to wild and stocked trout. I highly doubt most can tell the difference. There’s many differences between wild, stocked and streambred fish. While some regulations seem extreme in some areas it’s almost always necessary.
Nothing better than watching some dumbass yank a rooster tail from a trouts mouth and launch the half dead bleeding fish 30 yds back into the water while feeling good about himself for “catch and release”.

The habitat could be the issue... the released farmed trout & salmon here are marked by having their rear top fin removed. So as long as you know that you can tell them apart.

I agree on the do massive damage to a fish and then releasing it... like you did something good always seemed bizarre to me.

 

[roosterhavoc]

I wish they would stop stocking trout altogether. They ruin good fisheries to appease a few fishermen.
Kinda like shooting big ass deer on preserves that we’re practically bottle fed. No skill and hardly a damn trophy. A much smaller wild trout or a totally wild doe takes far more skill. To each their own. When there’s money to be made and the lazy to pay not much will change.

 

[SOHC-FTW]

Moved the black birds today and all went well introduced them to each other for the first time today as well.
May need to make one more window other than that I'm pleased.

 

[SOHC-FTW]

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Nice birds SOHC-FTW

I wish they would stop stocking trout altogether. They ruin good fisheries to appease a few fishermen.
Kinda like shooting big ass deer on preserves that we’re practically bottle fed. No skill and hardly a damn trophy. A much smaller wild trout or a totally wild doe takes far more skill. To each their own. When there’s money to be made and the lazy to pay not much will change.

Not sure why F&G stocks them if they are native... as it is I am going to call F&G on Monday at lunch to make sure we understand their definition of Steelhead to mean any trout or just Rainbow over a certain size as it seems ambiguous in their handbook what trout they are talking about and what that means considering trout species. Need to know as we need to know if we need the extra tag/cards. Sigh... navigating the rule book. We have decided on which stretch to try fishing... so barbless hooks. Looks like the kids liberated dads old tackle box and his old rod and reel... so we shall need to go shoping for new lures and a box... but hey they left a primo rod I think salt water, but it will work, we rummaged for the other rods but only found the broken kiddy one. (Will salvage the weight and lure from it, we need to move too much in hubby’s condition to get to where we both think the fly fishing poles might be assuming they were not liberated when the kids used to go fishing), I guess I will pick up a new rod and reel.

 

[YdogsflY]

This is my first Great Pyrenees, I hope he'll be as good as his parents.

They have different personalities. Lefty loves birds, but hates sheep.