Yearly Archives: 2012

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Maryland Trout Stocking Schedule Feb 17 2012

Just a few newly stocked trout streams in Maryland this past week…

 

 

 

County Location Date Map
Montgomery Lake Needwood – (725 RB/GN) Feb 16 GO >
Prince Georges Allens Pond – (750 RB/GN) Feb 16 GO >
Caroline Tuckohoe Creek – (1450 RB/GN) Feb 16 GO >
Washington Beaver Creek – (500 RB/GN) Feb 14 GO >
Howard Middle Patuxent River (Delayed Harest) – (500 RB/GN) Feb 14 GO >
Howard/Montgomery Patuxent River (Catch & Return) – (1000 RB) Feb 14 GO >

West Virginia Trout Stocking Schedule Feb 17 2012

West Virginia

More stocked trout swimming happily in West Virginia, as usual, including the Elk River (via the Orvis Fishing Reports site) and a whole bunch of other places I’ve never fished.

 

 

 

February 16, 2012

  • Big Sandy Creek
  • Cherry River
  • Conaway Run Lake
  • Coopers Rock Lake
  • Little Kanawha Headwaters
  • Middle Fork River
  • North Fork of Cherry River
  • North Fork of Fishing Creek
  • Rhine Creek
  • Right Fork of Little Kanawha
  • South Fork of Fishing Creek
  • Wolf Creek

February 15, 2012

  • Indian Creek
  • Meadow Creek of New River
  • Milligan Creek
  • Potts Creek
  • Rich Creek (Monroe)
  • South Fork Potts Creek
  • Tygart Headwaters

February 14, 2012

  • Dunkard Fork Lake
  • Horseshoe Run
  • Jimmy Lewis Lake
  • Pipestem Lake
  • Rockhouse Lake
  • Spruce Laurel Fork
  • Tygart Tailwaters

February 13, 2012

  • Curtisville Lake
  • Deer Creek (Nicholas)
  • Laurel Creek of Cherry River

February 10, 2011

  • Camp Creek
  • Dog Run Lake
  • East River
  • Elk River
  • Long Marsh Run
  • Mash Fork
  • Mill Run of Back Creek
  • New Creek
  • North Fork of Lunice Creek
  • North Fork of Patterson Creek
  • Poorhouse Pond
  • Summit Lake
  • Tilhance Creek
  • Tuscarora Creek
  • Watoga Lake

Virginia Trout Stocking Schedule Feb 10 2012

Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries

This week’s Virginia trout stocking schedule includes the South River, the Rose River and the South Branch of the Potomac. Given that the West Virginia DNR has also been filling the South Branch with trout this past week, that should be a great place to hit.

 

 

Alexandria (City of)
Cook Lake (02/08)
Augusta Co.
Back Creek (02/08)
Lower Sherando Lake (02/08)
Bland Co.
Lick Creek (02/06)
Botetourt Co.
Jennings Creek (02/06)
McFalls Creek (02/06)
Floyd Co.
Laurel Fork (02/08)
West Fork Little River (02/08)
Fredericksburg (City of)
Old Cossey Pond (02/08)
Highland Co.
South Branch Potomac River (02/09)
Madison Co.
Rose River (02/09)
Prince William Co.
Locust Shade Park (02/08)
Pulaski Co.
Peak Creek (02/07)
Roanoke Co.
Glade Creek (02/09)
Tinker Creek (02/07)
Rockbridge Co.
South River (02/07)
Russell Co.
Big Cedar Creek (02/08)
Scott Co.
Bark Camp Lake (02/08)
Warren Co.
Happy Creek (02/09)

Maryland Trout Stocking Schedule Feb 10 2012

Maryland’s pre-season trout stocking program is well underway. Interesting that Maryland’s website notes the West Virginia DNR trout stocking in the North Branch of the Potomac. I guess that thin slice of western Maryland is hard to completely untangle from West Virginia with respect to its fisheries.

 

County Location Date Map
Allegany Lake Habeeb (Rocky Gap)-(1000 RB/GN) Feb 9 GO >
Washington Antietam Creek (500 RB/GN) Feb 9 GO >
Washington Little Antietam Creek (Youth & Blind Only) – (300 RB/GN) Feb 9 GO >
Washington Little Tonoloway Creek, Upper (2 Fish/day) – (400 RB/GN) Feb 9 GO >
Carroll Morgan Run – Catch & Return Area – (1000 RB) Feb 9 GO >
Carroll South Branch Patapsco River (Upper) – (960 RB) Feb 9 GO >
Garrett North Branch Potomac River at Barnum (West Virginia DNR Fish) Feb 7 GO >
Garrett North Branch Potomac River Upper Catch and Release Area (West Virginia DNR Fish) Feb 7 GO >
Frederick Cunningham Falls Lake (960 RB) Feb 7 GO >
Frederick Frank Bentz Pond (240 RB) Feb 7 GO >
Frederick Rainbow Lake (475 RB/GN) Feb 7 GO >
Carroll Taneytown Pond (Robert’s Mills) (240 RB/GN) Feb 7 GO >
Allegany Battie Mixon Ponds (960 RB/GN) Feb 6 GO >
Baltimore Patapsco River at Daniels (2 fish/day), (1925 RB/GN) Feb 3 GO >

West Virginia Trout Stocking Schedule Feb 10 2012

West Virginia

Officials in the Mountaineer State have been busy stocking trout this week. With temps expected to be in the low to mid thirties and scattered snow showers in most places throughout the state, dress warmly, bring some deep running nymphs… or just stay home and tie some flies.

 

 

February 9, 2012

  • Blackwater River
  • Buffalo Creek (Brooke)
  • Castleman Run Lake
  • Hopkins Fork
  • Lower Cove Run
  • Middle Wheeling Lake
  • Moores Run
  • North Fork South Branch
  • Paw Paw Creek
  • Pond Fork
  • Tuckahoe Lake
  • Warden Lake
  • Whiteday Creek

February 8, 2012

  • Bear Rocks Lake
  • Dillons Run
  • Edwards Run
  • Fort Ashby Reservoir
  • Glady Fork
  • Mason Lake
  • Mill Creek of South Branch
  • Red Creek
  • Rollins Lake
  • Shavers Fork (Bemis section)
  • Shavers Fork (lower section)
  • Thomas Park Lake
  • Wheeling Creek

February 7, 2012

  • Anthony Creek
  • Brandywine Lake
  • Brushy Fork Lake
  • Buckhannon River
  • Cranberry River
  • Dry Fork (Randolph, Tucker)
  • Jennings Randolph Tailwaters
  • Kimsey Run Lake
  • Knapps Creek
  • Left Fork of Right Fork Buckhannon River
  • Lost River
  • North River
  • Panther Creek
  • R.D. Bailey Tailwaters
  • Right Fork of Buckhannon River
  • Right Fork of Middle Fork
  • Seneca Lake
  • South Branch (Smoke Hole)
  • South Mill Creek Lake
  • Trout Run
  • Waites Run

February 6, 2012

  • Buffalo Fork Lake
  • Bullskin Run
  • Cacapon Park Lake
  • Deer Creek (Pocahontas)
  • Dunloup Creek
  • Evitts Run
  • Gandy Creek
  • Greenbrier River
  • Laurel Fork (Randolph)
  • Meadow Creek of Anthony Creek
  • Middle Creek
  • Mill Creek Reservoir
  • Mill Creek of Opequon Creek
  • North Fork of Anthony Creek
  • Opequon Creek
  • Paint Creek
  • Rocky Marsh Run
  • Shavers Fork (upper section)
  • South Branch (Franklin)
  • Spruce Knob Lake
  • Teter Creek Lake

Full of a Wildness That Cannot Protect Itself…

Colorful Brook Trout Released
Typical Shenandoah National Park Brook Trout

From a piece by Nick Lyons, “Following a Fluid Trail Even Higher,” originally published in the New York Times “Outdoors” column on February 22, 1996 and reprinted in the excellent book of essays, Upriver and Downstream. His curiosity compelled him to trace the trails of rivers and reservoirs feeding New York City, further and further upstream, into the Catskills and to the headwaters streams that hold what are, in too many places, the last of our native brook trout:

These are wild brook trout — five, six, sometimes eight inches, on rare occasions a foot long. They have flanks as smooth as an otter’s skin, a dark mottled back, rose marks the color of wild strawberries, and striped fins. They wiggle like live jewels when you hoist them out of the water.

Greedy and wanton to their near extinction, vulnerable, full of a wildness that cannot protect itself, these fish are the ultimate symbol of piscatorial wildness, and it delights me to catch a dozen on barbless hooks and slip them swiftly back into their element. When I first climbed to the fountainhead of all city water and saw them, I stopped thinking of exotic Canadian fish and knew I had found a quiet place that satisfied all my longings.

Little do these diminutive flashes of light and color know the fate, downriver, of the precious, pure liquid in which they flourish. Little do they care — so long as it is there, so long as the great cities do not drink them into extinction. They are beautiful, rare creatures that dance in my head and I think of them even now, in the dead of winter, every time I turn on and turn off the faucet.

For people who cannot comprehend why anyone goes to the lengths they go in order to catch these little fish, this passage may help reveal what captures the imaginations of those of us who do this. Or maybe not, in which case a lot of hope for humanity is simply gone.

Maryland Trout Stocking Schedule Feb 3 2012

Just when I thought it had changed the way it reports how it stocks its streams, Maryland goes and updates its trout stocking schedule like they always have. Go figure…

 

 

County Location Date Map
Allegany Lake Habeeb (Rocky Gap) (960 RB/GN) Feb 2 GO >
Allegany Jennings Run (1445 RB/GN) Feb 2 GO >
Washington Blairs Valley Lake (960 RB/GN) Feb 2 GO >
Carroll Farm Museum Pond (720 RB/GN) Feb 2 GO >
Howard Elkhorn Lake(725 RB/GN) Feb 2 GO >
Carroll Piney Run Reservoir (1445 RB/GN) Feb 1 GO >
Washington Greenbrier Lake (1445 RB/GN) Feb 1 GO >
Garrett Youghiogheny R Delayed Harvest Area (1000 RB/GN) Jan 31 GO >
Garrett Youghiogheny R – Oakland (900 RB/GN) Jan 31 GO >
Garrett Youghiogheny R – Friendsville (500 RB/GN) Jan 31 GO >

Virginia Trout Stocking Schedule Feb 3 2012

Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries

The latest trout stocking info for Virginia. Short list this week…

 

 

 

Amherst Co.
Little Irish Creek (01/31)
Pedlar River (Lower) (01/31)
Albemarle Co.
Moormans River (S. Fork) (02/01)
Bath Co.
Douthat Lake and Wilson Creek (02/01)
Floyd Co.
Little River (01/30)
Grayson Co.
Hales Lake (02/01)
Wythe Co.
Gullion Fork Ponds (01/31)
Shenandoah Co.
Mill Creek (02/02)
Stony Creek (02/02)

Mill Pond Dam on Martha’s Vineyard and Sea Run Brook Trout

From an article last month in the Martha’s Vineyard Times about the Mill Pond dam and its effect on native fish:

The town of West Tisbury is currently investigating what should be done at the site of the town-owned Mill Pond, the last of seven manmade impoundments in the Mill Brook before it empties into Town Cove of Tisbury Great Pond less than a half mile to the south.

What to do, what to do. They’re still in the evaluation stage and it’s unclear (to me) if dam removal is on the agenda or if it would even affect the herring and native sea-run brook trout that inhabit the area. Something to keep an eye on.