cowans gap fishing

[brown82]

so the stocked trout there yesterday and cut a hole in the ice so i was like ill ride up today and set out some tip ups for trout and jig for some perch i get up there and there is a group of guys about 10 to 15 with in 5ft where they put them in at in 2 feet of water and some where out 10 yards farther just ripping these trout out that are just laying there u can see them laying there lol and they are just putting them back.i was like wow i cant beleave these grown men are acting like this over stocked trout it would have been like fishing in a baby pool and most of the ones they put back u could see laying at the bottom of the holes dead so i go on down to where i crappie fish in the deep water and did well then i come to my car and 2 of the guys that were down there fish for them trout stop over and say how did u do i said ok got 7 crappie and 1 trout the one guy was like well we cought so many i could not even tell u how many it was we could only use 2 tip up a peace and a jigging rod they we were killing them and i said i bet u were maybe u sould have just stood there and when they put the trout in u should have just grabed them with ur hands it would have save some time  and they both just walked away. sorry just had to vent alittle

[Chip D.]

Hell - I see groups of cars following the stocking truck sometimes. 

Not very sporting but let 'em have it . . . they paid for a license too.

[ghost_rider]

The trout guys love it when I tell em I am using em for bait.  Catfish love trout.

[brown82]

i would have loved to walk around all the hole and took a stick and got the dead ones for this weeks trip to glendale for pike bait but if i did that im sure the warden would have had something to say

[Ledsled2]

When you think about it, it doesent really suprise me people get up in arms about stockie trout. What do we really have thats good in PA as far as fishing is concerned? If you look at the states that surround us you see how poor fishing is here. Maryland has a bay fishery thats been better plus everyone loves Deep Creek lake. New York Is simply the best state to fish in the north east with all there giant lakes. I do alot of fly fishing and stockie trout are not my thing fact is I really hate them. But...I can see where as you may get excited if you were sitting on the ice everyday and catching five dinky panfish and the trout truck rolled up. I dont know I suppose its all in the way you look at it.

[boatnik13]

It's All about $,$$$,$$$,$$$  for the PFBC & PGC.  Pennsylvania is all about stocking insted of what it really can support year round.