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 > |
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
February 15, 2012
February 14, 2012
February 13, 2012
February 10, 2011
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.
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 > |
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
February 8, 2012
February 7, 2012
February 6, 2012
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.
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 > |
Only two listings for trout streams stocked this past week in West Virginia…
January 31, 2012
The latest trout stocking info for Virginia. Short list this week…
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.