New Trout Stocking Method

[@mrsmith8436]

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

[@BarryP]

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]

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

[@happycamper4429]

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

[@dalelegg2145]

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]

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]

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

[@chrisdikovics3580]

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

[@bwcok7947]

Great job Jim!

[@jordangourley3955]

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

[@joycefairfield9102]

Do you work with the Freshwater Institute in Shepardstown?

[@melindaburdette341]

Good one guys.thanks for share.🏩🏩

[@lopsidedc0rn875]

"trout are delicate fish" proceeds to launch them from a five gallon bucket 😂

[@paulwykle3674]

This doesn’t happen on Anthony creek.

[@Black-March]

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.

[@mattplaster9373]

Way better than NC does.

[@flyguy2021]

Need a trout cannon

[@peterfitzpatrick7032]

Troutuchet !! 😂

[@carrietruman4777]

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

[@sydneyann20101]

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 😂

[@thomaspatroski8991]

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

[@Nick-dd2xg]

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

[@d803albion]

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

[@Nick-dd2xg]

@@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 🤣

[@MrSageCurtis]

I love it

[@michaelstone3069]

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]

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

[@mikebaker9574]

They still follow the truck lol

[@privatedata665]

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

[@monikaloffler]

Never seen such crazy kind. Sure not well done to the animals. Gruß Thomas Löffler

[@Franky46Boy]

The Nethod! 😆

[@dannywise7982]

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

[@markmcgarrh1364]

I believe they could be little more careful handling the fish. jeez just slinging them from the road seems pretty cruel

[@landanwoodard7569]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@tylerrandolph6193]

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

[@Portlycranium]

Placing the net in water and let them swim out. Stupidity to throw any fish like that much less fragile trout. Dum da dum dum dum.