New Trout Stocking Method

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West Virginia Department of Commerce

5 жыл бұрын

A new trout stocking method has been implemented in the Mountain State. DNR staff and contractors are now spreading trout out over longer sections of stream. Hatchery staff stock approximately one million trout a year. That means stopping and releasing fish about 15,000 times in more than 200 streams and lakes around the state.

Пікірлер: 39

@mrsmith8436 3 жыл бұрын

Wow that sure is an impressive new method of scooping them up in the net and flinging them out into the water.

@BarryP 9 ай бұрын

Right? The "Lazy AF Method". Super tech stuff compared to acclimating them to the water temp and releasing them gently so most of them survive the first hour. Were these guys born in a barn? Oh, wait!

@dragally1 2 ай бұрын

Keeps people from sitting on holes and catching them alll. I like it, keeps lazy bait fishers guessing. Good for you.

@happycamper4429 2 жыл бұрын

I like the trail of cars following the stocking truck!! Gotta love retirement.

@chrisdikovics3580 4 жыл бұрын

They look like very nice sized trout ... Much bigger than NJ stocked fish !

@bwcok7947 2 жыл бұрын

Great job Jim!

@jordangourley3955 2 ай бұрын

Our local club does float stocking. They kayak down the river releasing fish along the way.

@melindaburdette341 3 жыл бұрын

Good one guys.thanks for share.🏩🏩

@joycefairfield9102 9 ай бұрын

Do you work with the Freshwater Institute in Shepardstown?

@MrSageCurtis 3 жыл бұрын

I love it

@dalelegg2145 Жыл бұрын

Yeah B S.! People line up at hatchery with full tank of gas waiting to follow the truck, I never forget I was at Williams River and look up and seen 30 to 40 vehicles behide the stock truck each time they threw out net 2 or 3 cars pull off at that spot, And people know what days they stock cause very seldom mix it up , Trout Fishing not for a working man, don't want here that B.S.!

@jimsomerville3924 2 ай бұрын

Especially tough if you want to bring your kids and have to deal with all the grumpy old men who take it way too serious. I wish states would make most locations delayed harvest so everyone can catch and release for a couple months, then keep them as water turns warm.

@marshallsee9794 22 күн бұрын

We work and take our kid and we DONT FOLLOW THE TRUCK! But we also fish when THE SNOWFLAKES ARE CRYING!

@flyguy2021 8 ай бұрын

Need a trout cannon

@peterfitzpatrick7032 3 ай бұрын

Troutuchet !! 😂

@paulwykle3674 4 жыл бұрын

This doesn’t happen on Anthony creek.

@Black-March 6 ай бұрын

Meanwhile in my area we stock trout the size of a pinky finger and then they grow up on their own for a few years before getting to the size where you can catch them.

@Franky46Boy 4 ай бұрын

The Nethod! 😆

@mikebaker9574 2 ай бұрын

They still follow the truck lol

@thomaspatroski8991 2 ай бұрын

They need to put a lot more in then just a few scoops . Lets stock more up north instead of down south.

@carrietruman4777 4 жыл бұрын

The fish needs to be spade out in all the streams in wv where I fish they just stock the easy places

@sydneyann20101 4 жыл бұрын

Its kinda pointless considering the fish do know how to swim therefore spreading themselves out hell swimming is the first thing we teach them at the hatchery i work at 😂

@Nick-dd2xg 3 ай бұрын

"trout are delicate fish, you need to handle them with absolute care!!" *And these guys throw them off of bridges* 🤣👌🏼

@d803albion Ай бұрын

Trout stocking has been done from a helicopter in remote lakes!

@Nick-dd2xg Ай бұрын

@@d803albion exactly! But talk to any trout fisherman and they act like you have to treat these fish like a bomb you dug up in a farm field 🤣

@michaelstone3069 6 ай бұрын

Better than ohio now Ohio is now putting more trout in the same lakes doing more releases at lakes around metropolitan areas and none in rural areas that use to get it.

@monkeybusinessasusuall5467 3 ай бұрын

In PA it’s the opposite. Now the Philly areas get virtually no trout meanwhile pennsyltucky gets all the trout.

@dannywise7982 3 жыл бұрын

Do it there not in the eastern panhandle half of a net then leave 25 Fisher men 20 fish

@privatedata665 2 ай бұрын

Don't follow the white truck , don't fish stockies

@tylerrandolph6193 Ай бұрын

If you follow the stock truck, you're not fishing. Change my mind.

@landanwoodard7569 3 ай бұрын

Lazy. Wade out knee deep and gently release the fish. Throwing them off a bridge and bouncing them off rocks in the rapids is not fish friendly. Once you stock close the fishing season for at least two years so they can grow and multiply. Disgusting

@jimsomerville3924 2 ай бұрын

A lot of the stocking locations get too warm for good trout habitat. So, they could stock in spring and delay harvest until June so people could catch and release for a few months (assuming poachers don't grab them all).

@Grouse2275 Ай бұрын

It doesn’t hurt the trout and closing a stream for two years makes no sense. Do you think they would live that long? I’m all for wild trout but it is what it is….

@landanwoodard7569 Ай бұрын

@@Grouse2275 if the water stays cool enough to support the trout yes they would live for years.

@stewartferguson4676 2 ай бұрын

What an absolute disgraceful way to stock. Throwing the fish from the height of the vehicle is so sickening. There was only one guy handling the fish with care. The remainder near fired.

@grahammckinnon6455 2 ай бұрын

Idiot. Some places literally stock by plane