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2008 TROUT STOCKING
PROGRAM CHANGES |
 For
the 2008 season the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission will stock some 3.4 million adult trout in Commonwealth
waters open to public angling. This figure includes trout produced at state fish hatcheries, trout obtained
from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service as part of a cooperative agreement between the Fish & Boat Commission
and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and trout obtained as part of a purchase contract with a commercial hatchery.
This figure is similar to the number of trout produced for stocking during the 2007 season. As implemented
for the 2007 season, the average length of the trout produced for stocking will be 11 inches. |
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| New waters -- Restorations and changes -- Removal
of waters |
| New Waters |
| East Branch Brandywine Creek, Chester County. Located partially
in a public park near a dense population center, a 2.1-mile stream section will be added to the trout stocking program.
Stocking will extend from the SR 4004 bridge on Dowlin Forge Road downstream to Pennsylvania Avenue
in Downingtown. The stream will receive a preseason stocking of brown and rainbow trout.
Huntingdon Creek, Columbia County. Recent
efforts by Columbia County officials have been successful in restoring access to a part of this stream
that was removed from the stocking program several years ago because of posting. This will allow a 1.6-mile
stream section from Forks Farm downstream to Twin Bridges Park to be added to the stocking program.
This stream section will receive a preseason and an inseason stocking of brown and rainbow trout.
Jordan
Creek, Lehigh County. A 3.2-mile section extending from the Mill Creek Road bridge (SR 4009) downstream
to the Jordan Road bridge (T-593) near the Trexler Game Preserve will be added to the trout stocking program. The
addition of this stream section will provide additional angling opportunities near a dense population center. This
stream section will receive a preseason and an inseason stocking of brown and rainbow trout.
Little Neshannock Creek,
Lawrence and Mercer counties. A 4.1-mile stream section extending from the confluence with the West
Branch of Little Neshannock Creek downstream to the mouth will be added to the trout stocking program.
This stream section will receive a preseason and an inseason stocking of brown and rainbow trout. |
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| Restorations & Changes
to Waters |
| Stocking Restoration |
| Cold Run, Schuylkill County. A 2.2-mile stream section extending
from the confluence with Beaver Creek downstream to the mouth will return to the trout stocking program
in 2008 following the completion of repairs to the access road. This waterway will be stocked preseason only with
rainbow trout.
Delaware Canal, Bucks County. Following the completion of maintenance work on the canal, stocking
will resume in a 1.0-mile canal section extending from the upstream boundary of Upper Washington Crossing
State Park downstream to the canal lock at the lower park boundary. This water will receive a preseason
and an inseason rainbow trout stocking.
Laurel Lake, Cumberland County. A lake drawdown for maintenance
repairs led to canceling the 2007 preseason and spring inseason stockings on this 25-acre impoundment.
Trout stocking was tentatively scheduled to resume during the fall in 2007.
Lyman Lake, Potter County.
This 40-acre lake was removed from the stocking program in 2001 because of safety concerns that required
a total drawdown of the impoundment to allow for major renovations to the structure of the dam. Trout
stocking was tentatively scheduled to resume beginning with the winter stocking period in late 2007.
Rock Run, Lancaster County.
A 2.7-mile stream section extending from the campgrounds located about 1 mile downstream of the Berks
and Lebanon County line downstream to the mouth will be restored to the trout stocking program following
the resolution of access problems. This stream section will receive a preseason stocking of brown and
rainbow trout. |
| Delayed-Harvest area extension |
| Sandy Lick Creek, Clearfield County. In cooperation with the Allegheny
Mountain Chapter of Trout Unlimited and the city of Dubois, a 0.5-mile extension will be added to the Delayed-Harvest,
Artificial-Lures-Only area on Sandy Lick Creek in 2008. The revised area will extend from the confluence
with Laborde Branch downstream to the SR 0219 bridge in Dubois. |
| Stocking expansion |
Changes in classification, surface area, and/or stocking limit extensions have led
to an increase in the stocking program on the following waters for the 2008 season:
- Big Spring Creek, Cumberland County;
- Codorus Creek, York County;
- Cowanshannock Creek, Armstrong County;
- Frances Slocum Lake, Luzerne County;
- French Creek, Chester County;
- Lake Wilma, Greene County;
- Lehigh River, Carbon and Luzerne counties;
- Little Clearfield Creek, Clearfield County;
- Manatawny Creek, Berks County;
- Meshoppen Creek, Wyoming County;
- Montour Run, Allegheny County;
- Pekin Run, Jefferson County;
- Raystown Branch Juniata River, Somerset County;
- Sacony Creek, Berks County;
- Tuscarora Creek, Bradford and Wyoming counties;
- West Branch Chester Creek, Delaware County;
- West Branch Meshoppen Creek, Susquehanna and Wyoming counties;
- Wheeling Creek, Dunkard Fork, North Fork, Greene County;
- Whiteley Creek, Greene County;
- Willow Creek, Berks County; and
- Yellow Creek, Bedford County.
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| Other program changes |
| Clear Run, Jefferson County. Early season water quality concerns
stemming from episodic acidification have changed this waterway’s trout stocking. Beginning with the 2008 season,
stocking will be conducted inseason only. This water had been stocked preseason only.
North Fork Redbank
Creek, Jefferson County. Early season water quality concerns stemming from episodic acidification have
eliminated preseason stocking on a 1.4-mile stream section extending from Moore Bridge Road (SR 4006)
downstream to the confluence with Pekin Run. Inseason stocking will continue.
Rocky Run, Elk County.
Opening day angler counts conducted in 2006 and 2007 documented very low early season angler use on
this water. The timing of stocking will therefore change from preseason only to inseason only. |
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| Removal of Waters |
| Dotters Creek, Monroe County. A 2.5-mile stream section extending
from the Mertz Road bridge (T-442) downstream to the mouth will be removed from the trout stocking
program because of an increase in landowner posting.
Horm Run, Jefferson County. A 2.4-mile stream section
extending from the T-450 bridge downstream to the mouth will be removed from the trout stocking program
because of a combination of access limitations (less than 20 percent of the stream is within 100 yards
of a road), low angler use, and the small stream size. This water had been stocked preseason only. |
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