Douglaston new catch & release policy

[LyNcH]

CHANGE ON THE RUN: Starting the opening day of the 2010-11 season in August, the DSR will be 100% CATCH AND RELEASE for ALL Trout species and Atlantic Salmon. We will still allow customers to keep their limit of Chinook and Coho salmon, but trout and atlantics will ALL have to be released. We hope that this will have a positive impact, not only on the DSR , but on the entire river system. Every fish that is released is one that will have that much more opportunity to spawn and live another day for another angler.


I wish they would make the whole river this way.

 

[eddavidson9]

I wish they would make the whole river this way.

with this, a very large portion of the river is catch and release, at least for trout. i wont begrudge people their right to keep the occasional fish midriver. seems to be plenty to go around the past couple years and the more we educate the more C&R we will see.

interesting that DSR would make this move...wonder if it will affect their bottom line in the pos, neg or not at all.

 

[Simms]

with this, a very large portion of the river is catch and release, at least for trout. i wont begrudge people their right to keep the occasional fish midriver. seems to be plenty to go around the past couple years and the more we educate the more C&R we will see.

interesting that DSR would make this move...wonder if it will affect their bottom line in the pos, neg or not at all.

THis is a great move! Keep the trout in the river!!!


I dont mind if people keep the Salmon. I personally do not want to be glow in the dark in years to come. People gobble up those Salmon like its their job! Most people dont realize that nice beautiful pink fillet of Salmon at the super market comes from the Pacific Ocean. goons.


Lynch, I mean to ask you since you were up on the SR a LOT this season, did you spot any rock snot? My buddies were up laying a beat down on the chrome this weekend and spotted, what they thought, was rock snot at the ball park and down in town. Can you verify this? I HOPE ITS NOT TRUE!

 

[LyNcH]

I only wish people would C&R on the local tribs out there. OK, so the SR has a ton of hatchery fish (which I still support the release of), but the tribs are not stocked and these fish are returning to continue the cycle and spawn for future years of return. The number of females loaded with eggs taken from these areas is sickening. I even found a female steelhead on the bank with her belly cut open for the eggs. These fish are not hatchery fish! I know I am preaching to the choir here.

I actually fished the river from the DSR to the wire in the upper fly zone on Saturday (final trip there this season:crap. In the DSR, there is algae growing on the rocks where the flow is slow. It seems a touch early for this time of year, but with the high temps and bright sun we had last week with the extremely low water, I'm not surprised. The river always seems to gets algae in it and any attempts to nymph over the summer is frustrating as your fly always gets junked up if it hits bottom. I didn't see any algae up top of the river, but give it a month.

Is it rock snot? I don't think so, but I am no biologist & to top it off, I'm colorblind.:down:

I also received word that the DSR has been granted approval to stock their section with brown trout. It'll be interesting to see if they hang around there and spawn down the road, or venture out into the big bad lake. I'm glad they are making the whole DSR C&R. I saw some beautiful steelhead and amazing browntrout(12-15lb range) leave that place on stringers. I've never eaten a brown, but hear they are quite nasty when they get that big. My goal is to catch a nice 15lb male brown for a replica to be made for my mancave/fly tying/rod building room. Maybe next year.........

 

[DoubleHaul]

DSR just got the last of my $$$$. I agree with C&R but I WANT TO BE THE ONE TO DECIDE IF I KEEP A FISH OR NOT. TOO MANY RULES. GETTING SICK OF BEING TOLD WHAT TO DO! The Douglaston isn't the important part of the river for spawning anyway, the UFZ & LFZ have the C&R covered for the chromers anyway. All they are doing is supplying more steelhead and Atlantics for the "Kerplunkers" in the the river above the DSR. Just stupid. Oh, BTW, how many Steelhead and Atlantics have I killed in the Salmon River system? Answer- ZERO & That was my decision each & every time. Look at my avatar, the guide I hired on that day said I "was a fool" for releasing that 15 lb. hen.

 

[LyNcH]

Look at my avatar, the guide I hired on that day said I "was a fool" for releasing that 15 lb. hen.

I can give you the name of a guide who would pat you on the back and say nice fish, and even nicer that you released it so she can finish out the winter and make it up to her bed.

Too bad the picture isn't any larger in your avatar, it looks like a nice fish!

 

[DoubleHaul]

 

[snowslide]

as a big fan of the fishery I think going all C&R is a great step foward. Maybe it cuts down the goon factor. I'm tired of cleaning up after those clowns anyway.