Improve your odds to catch more fish. Whenever you want to.
Rhode Island presently has over eighty various fresh water locations around the state that are designated trout waters.
http://www.dem.ri.gov/programs/bnatres/fishwild/troutwaters.htm
Over eighty different locations in little Rhody, but only one, The Falls River in Exeter, is designated for catch and release trout fishing.
Think about this for a moment,… having only One:
*what if there was only One designated area to clam dig
*what if there was only One designated area to bow hunt
*what if there was only One designated area to dog train
*what if there was only One designated area to roller blade, or skate board
*what if there was only One designated bike trail
*what if there was only One designated area to surf cast
So why do our tax dollars and license fees only provide One designated area for catch and release fishing?
Covering over 50 miles of public water, there is no logical reason why there should not be sections of both the Wood and Pawcatuck, and Pawtuxet rivers designated for catch and release trout fishing.
Lets provide all Rhode Island anglers greater options to also enjoy C&R trout fishing, and save the state some wasteful spending at the same time.
June 7, 2012 at 9:05 pm
One downside to only one C&R location in RI is that everyone who wants to fish in this manner is funneled into this one 2 mile small stream.Comparing the condition of the Falls C&R area with its sister tributaries,the Flat and Breakheart, over the last few seasons,leads me to believe that the Falls is suffering from overuse.
Another problem,being so short in length,this area seems to afford little or no increased protection for native fish. initially, studies showed an increase in fish populations in this area ,but more recent studies don’t show any improvements when compared with the sister tribs.This C&R area is not stocked, in an effort to enhance native fish. Above and below the designated C&R area,stocking of hatchery fish goes on on a continuing basis throughout the fishing season.Many of these stockers migrate into the unstocked area and compete for limited resources and habitat.
Recently,I read an article commenting on the satisfaction that can be derived from fishing a stream where all age classes of native fish were prolific.I remember always being charmed by the sight of yearling brook trout in the not so distant past.I also recall sighting many other species of native fish.Sculpin were everywhere,schools of minnows were abundant.Having this small section of stream surrounded by waters stocked well above their carrying capacity insures that these species will be prayed upon by hatchery fish. I haven’t seen a yearling brook trout or any of these other natives in years in any waters where continous over stocking occurs.SAVE THE SCULPIN!Canadian studies of brook trout diets show that sculpin young provide the greatest portion of brookies diet for a considerable period of time in the early spring. Maybe the state should stock sculpin.
I would also like to take my grandkids to see brook trout spawning as I showed their parents in the past.No yearling natives can survive a continual onslaught of starving and much bigger hatchery fish.Brook Trout no longer spawn on the mainstem riffles where they were a common sight only 25 years ago.Native fish need room.
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