Zach Matthews
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John –
If, hypothetically, stocking were to be totally discontinued, we’d need some much more robust catch and release regulations in almost all southern tailwaters in order to prevent a major reduction in overall trout numbers of all species. The one exception might be the Little Red, which has robust brown trout reproduction.
I am seeing pretty variable numbers of trout per mile on the White, ranging from 3,000 to 7,500 depending on the area. Let’s go with the biggest possible number. There are 125 miles of fishable trout water in Bull Shoals Tailwater. 125 X 7500 = 937,500 trout in that river at any given time.
That’s a lot right?
Well. They stocked exactly 1,181,174 trout in 2010 according to the AGFC.
So, they’re restocking 126% of the trout in the river (according to the very most generous estimate of trout per mile) *yearly*.
If they discontinued stocking and didn’t adjust the regs to change the take rate, those fisheries would be devastated very quickly.
Zach
A better way to go about this would have been to taper off the federal funding to give the states time to put some fundraising measures in place, rather than to just cut it all off on October 1. But in principle I agree with you Craig.
Zach
That is true Bob, and I agree with you that the states these hatcheries are located in should fund the hatcheries themselves.
Those flies all look amazing. Except that Turbo Popper, which looks like an enemy from Halo. 🙂
Where can you get these Copic setups and how much do they cost? Another advantage of markers is the paint shouldn’t eat through softer materials like spray paint can do.
Also, long shot, but would the sprayer hook up to a Preval spray can?
Jim I asked if you were around in the flyshop in Cincinnati, but the dude working there did not know you.
Douglas –
You’re not going to be very far from the Heber Springs area, which is on the Little Red River (where the last world record brown was caught back in 1992).
See my map below; a little out of date but useful.
Directions:
You also could go over to the Spring or the Norfork Rivers, in Hardy and Norfork, Arkansas respectively.
Here’s my very old article on fishing the Little Red, written while I was in college.
http://www.itinerantangler.com/podcasts/2006/02/article_siblings_of_the_white.html
Zach
In fairness, Tim, I’m not sure the magazines have Ohio in mind when they’re doing those glamorous articles. 🙂
Zach
Hahahaha, apparently they went alphabetically, because there is no way I should be billed ahead of anyone.