Why the Government Puts Farmed Fish in our Ponds #shorts #fishing

[tjlastname]

I love to see this. It’s one of the few times the government uses your money the way you actually want them too.

[allenbergman]

Everyone is saying birds are government drones but no one expects the fish to be government drones

[bryanhugh]

"Trout are super fragile. Make sure you release them nice"
The hatcheries just tossin em in by the bucket and dropping em in like hot shots putting out fires 😂

[k.pacificnw]

I feel weird catching hatchery fish in a pond where they continue to feed them twice a day. Feels like I'm fishing out of a fishbowl

[walkingfish]

I vote to stop stocking non native fish that have to be farmed when bass bluegill and cats could easily support themselves. Put license money into the habitat of our waters not just filling it up with sterile fish

[TheJacobshapiro]

I find it a lot more fun to catch stockers with lures. Trout aren’t as picky as people make them out to be, even wild ones. If you have access to a boat or kayak it’s fun to throw a 1/4oz kastmaster for them. I like to go within 1-2 weeks of stocking where they’ve had a bit of time to settle in and start eating but haven’t all been caught and made cautious (or been eaten by a person or a bass or pike).

They put up a good fight on light tackle. Making long casts and slow-rolling a spoon just under the surface, if conditions are ideal you’ll catch one almost every cast.

[joshfishing]

We’re about to stock one of the ponds at a Sportsmans club for a trout derby can’t wait

[alejandromelecio]

For everyone that's upset about hatcheries. Unless you want fishing to be a premium thing we need hatcheries to support freshwater fishing. The amount of fishing people do is too much to maintain stable populations in rivers and creeks.

[bori_borii]

Thats the best thing about hunting and fishing licenses and any money we put towards it. The government cant touch a dime of it. People dont realize the importance of paying for your licenses and tags exetera.

[Cooldude-tmrs]

I like bass/ catfishing more because they’re actually native to the creeks and rivers so they usually put up much stronger fights

[SpeckledSouth]

Greetings from Biloxi, MS. Believe it or not, our state does the same thing but with inshore species like speckled trout. They release a number game fish every year into the Gulf of Mexico to help the population. Cool stuff!

[julieteveee]

Decades ago I used to fish my local streams and catch native brookies. When we caught a stocked trout we turned up our noses at the flabby fish with the white flesh and threw them back. I wish they spent the money are helping the native trout instead of farming and releasing.

[Yphrum]

GIVE THEM A MONTH OR MORE TO GET THE FEED OUT OF THEIR BODIES. people literally follow the stock trucks and harvest for their own ponds.

[dronetek]

In Los Angeles, they stock catfish in the summer and trout in the winter. In ALL bodies of water (man-made lakes, reservoirs, golf courses) but I was told that it had to do with keeping the mosquito population under control cos the fish all eat the eggs and larvae.

[Vegan_trash]

Without fisheries we wouldn’t have a fishing season for trout.

[woodsandwaters]

I have never got a bite on any power bait. Light action rod, small hook, small spit shot and chunk of night crawler gets them every time though.

[morrismonet]

Canned corn works as well as anything on stocked trout. Especially if you chum a bit first.

[marcellowheeler]

Guess that explains why whenever I i fished for them with power bait id be the only person catching them lol

[johnathonmeadows]

My favorite rig for trout is a garlic salmon egg followed by a Berkeley soft maggot. Used it my entire life and it has yet to let me down!

[JustinCaswell-gvdi]

I just went out yesterday with my dad at a little river they stocked recently, I got a stocked brook trout and he got a nice brown that we ate.