{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Maryland Brook Trout Plan Update

Hey Jamie,

Agree - when they identify the strong populations with good access, those are places that can be used to increase awareness of brook trout and the benefits of protecting them. 

What is kind of scary in MD is those central region fish may be a bit different from the ones in Catoctin Mtn and Western MD. These are brook trout that have found a way to survive at low elevations and often as low density populations. They grow faster too. Yet if there is no slowing of the current trend, in another 30 years this whole subset of the population will be wiped out - fly anglers will have to go to Catoctin to see a brook trout in the wild. 

On Saturday, October 19, 2019 at 2:50:22 PM UTC-4, Jamie Carracher wrote:

This is an awesome update, Andrew. Thank you for sharing. I've learned a ton from your analysis and reading reports like this.

It makes me think of an article I read a few months ago from northeast Ohio, where I grew up. There are just a few small native brook trout streams in all of Ohio, which are protected essentially under secrecy. Fishing for them is illegal and the state DNR is just trying to keep them from extinction as they are wholly unique from other states brookies. Even with the declines, MD is lucky to have streams with fish that can handle angling pressure. For the state, that could be something they could use as marketing to anglers. Especially if they can protect and build the population. http://ediblecleveland.com/stories/summer-2019/saving-the-brook-trout

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