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

@HardinProuductionsOriginal

Ай бұрын

Not really, most people think this is great but don't understand 50% of the time its put in waters and handled WRONG, or in waters that can't hold trout year round. It's a waste of money and heavily inefficient. First, they need to spread an awareness, Trout are NOT Bass, they can't just be tossed in Water and be expected to survive. Infact most Trout when pulled out of the water for even a couple of seconds often died, I used to think Stocked Trout were stronger til I finally got back to trout fishing and found that all the stockies I caught (in various states), were actually just as weak. I didn't mean to pull them out, even when I put them on my stringer I usually put them in a trout designed net and still somewhat in the water but nobody's perfect and I'm far from that, so mistakes were made. Most of them died approximately a minute later, some lasted 5 minutes. I wasn't the only one too, I started going around surveying and found that most people noticed their trout dying before even getting on the stringer due to improper handling. About 60% of the few thousand people I surveyed knew to handle with wet hands but still pulled them out of the water. Do you wanna know why? Trout can't handle that stress of being pulled out of the water, the gravity "feels" heavier to them and puts pressure on their organs that they're unable to recover from. If the Government started putting that in the regulations for trout, giving that information out. I would much prefer that. I don't expect people to be able to do it, its not easy, even with a net and a pair of forescepts but to slowly bring awareness to it is good enough for me. California of all states (the most horrifying state) actually provides this information. Now if people are just keeping to eat, idgaf.

@zamhaq8866

Ай бұрын

​@@HardinProuductionsOriginalnever thought the government was this ignorant, i mean, when you raise a fish hatchery dont you know about that?

@eftheusempire

Ай бұрын

You need to seriously re evaluate your own handling of fish if they are dying from a few seconds out of the water. Youre probably squeezing the shit out of them because trout will be just fine from eben 30 seconds out of the water. Although you should always get them back in as soon as possible. This means dont take a picture because nobody fucking cares anyway. Unless of course its worth taking a pic cause its a chunker. But even then, unhook it, let is sit back in a net in the water WITHOUT a stringer... Then take your pic quickly. Also, if youre putting fish on a stringer..... Its to eat them... So please explain why it even matters that they die... And again its probably because you are stringing them incorrectly. Trout are much more hardy than you think and from what you are claiming I seriously doubt you are an avid angler much less a responsible and safe one.

@eftheusempire

Ай бұрын

And to add to that trout can live year round in virtually all water, thats why they are EVERYWHERE and also why they are used as the main stock fish.... Exactly because they are so hardy.

@nuth9731

29 күн бұрын

@@HardinProuductionsOriginalI don’t think they expect them to survive they release them just for us to catch and eat not restock the ecosystem. They tell you where and how many the dnr is asking you to catch them.

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

@Samawtf

27 күн бұрын

Government submarines you mean

@FarmerFpv

27 күн бұрын

I have proof crows are based government drones. They poop on my neighbor's Joe Biden sign and they do a laughing caw caw caw sound at my FJB sign.

@vincentvega5686

25 күн бұрын

birds are drones. so are bugs.

@Alsry1

25 күн бұрын

​@@vincentvega5686 the damn bacteria drones

@eebydeeby69420

24 күн бұрын

You ever eat a pigeon?

"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 😂

@lotgc

26 күн бұрын

Bruh here in Utah we tactically airdrop our fish from out of the sky! 😂😂😂

@JustinCaswell-gv3di

25 күн бұрын

Just stay delicate with the natives

@myrtlefishing7722

22 күн бұрын

​@@lotgcsurprising they have a pretty high survival rate from that

@bryanhugh8905

17 күн бұрын

@@JustinCaswell-gv3di oh i do my best regardless. It still shocked me the first time I saw it

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

@loudd

22 күн бұрын

So dumb

@Bubski68

22 күн бұрын

⁠@@louddsounds like someone always lost the fish rodeo 😂

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

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.

@zelandy1628

Ай бұрын

Same ditched power bait (kinda boring) and just use rooster tails and panther martins now

@dudemynameisdebo

Ай бұрын

I’ve been catching them on micro crankbaitz

@vandenT2208

Ай бұрын

I prefer fishing in non stocked waters. The fish always seem more cautious, so it makes it way more rewarding when you actually get one to bite a lure. Despite this, I'll never say no to catching a trout, stocked or otherwise.

@tristendunn1808

Ай бұрын

The wild cutthroat in my local river are absolutely picky I've tried bait, every lure, power bait, everything. Unless you match the fly they are eating they will not take it.

@dudemynameisdebo

Ай бұрын

@@tristendunn1808 Bro try a micro crank bait.

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!

In Michigan we own a lakefront property, and there is this really nice man I met the first year I was there. I am about 13 or 14. I had formed a strong bond with him, and every single time he went fishing on his boat he made sure to pick me up. They also own a ton of land with farms. In there is this small pond that the government used to use to raise pike and walleye, and then released them into the pond. They haven’t used it in years. They wife said to me that she will get the area cleaned up, put in a dock, and let me fish there. There is a small pipe that connects to the lake. It is very small so only micro fish could get through. They would then grow up and stay there. It has not been touched for years. So the bass and pike are pretty large.

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.

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

@jacobpierce758

Ай бұрын

Especially in my area. In MO we only get trout (predominantly rainbow) near trout parks. The parks contain the hatchery, and sanctuaries. Then they're released nearby. I suspect the trout are breeding naturally but I doubt they'd successfully sustain themselves. Then again the brown trout aren't stocked and they do survive naturally in the area

@Vegan_trash

Ай бұрын

@@jacobpierce758 with how much we’ve diverted and dammed waterways that trout use to get to their spawning locations they wouldn’t be able to sustain themselves left to their own. Or maybe they would. Some studies have shown they can, and others that they can’t

@jacobpierce758

Ай бұрын

I can only speak to my own area, and what I've seen here. From my understanding, the only fish species our conservation department stocks or maintains is trout. And that's simply because this area only has specific places they can survive. I'm sure if they stay in those specific places they'd do fine. And we really don't have many dams on our biggest rivers, and only one that ik blocks a particular river or stream. Even then many of the fish species we have here would make it if isolated by a dam just by virtue of not being fussy breeders.

@dilonpedro6865

Ай бұрын

@@jacobpierce758uhhh do yk that browns are invasive?

@jacobpierce758

Ай бұрын

@dilonpedro6865 not in my area. They along with rainbows are absolutely non native, but the habitat here only supports trout in specific areas. They really don't affect the ecosystem negativly

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

Remeber 4-8lb line, trout have some of the best eye sight of any fish and can easily see thicker line and will avoid biting

@Capper69

17 күн бұрын

Tbh out here in Cali anything over 4lb is overkill for trout maxima mono line I have the most faith in winning trout derby’s and everything in between it’s a perfect set up I either use 2lb or 4lb max lines are already rated below what the breaking weight is.. plus I’ve caught more than enough 10 plus pound fish on 8lb and below… lines are more stronger than ever granted every species has different set ups and ways to catch em

I wish they would stock bass instead of trout around my area because they die off every summer

For 40 years they were trout and splake stocking the lake my mom hrew up on, which was also our cottage as we grew up. Apparently they won't stock it anymore because it was the wrong fish for our lake. Our lake was Bass, catfish and perch... it was a "test" lake.

Here is a hint for when stocked trout or any other farm raised fish isn’t biting. Gather up some very small pea gravel a couple hand fulls will do. Toss a handful into the water the trout will instinctively head for the sound as it is exactly what they heard when they were being fed at the hatchery, in your next handful include your baited hook with enough loose line and toss it in! FISH ON!!!

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!

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.

Because the company that runs these operations gives the fed and state governments tens of millions for campaigns and whatever else. One of the few corruptions I can accept.

@mikeboyd-og1sh

21 күн бұрын

more lies from the nat-c party

I wouldn’t be eating those fish if I were you.

Streams near me have trout reproducing now. Which is truly amazing.

Been catching the stock trout for years. They are really good if you throw them in some foil with some seasoning and butter into a hot bed of coals the only thing you got to be careful is the fact that they die from any kind of trauma very easily and when you handle the fish you have to be careful because the bones are so small that they easily break. Still edible but you just have to pick bones out of the meat while you eat it. Instead of using a fork to just pull it off of the bones

I've caught little wild trout in Massachusetts in small wooded streams. Places with two inches of trickling water surrounded by trees and ferns. It was a long walk to get to those places. There was no way they were stocked. I've caught huge ones in backwoods Maine that weren't stocked. That was a long drive on logging roads, canoeing across a lake and hiking up a stream. There was no signs of humans for the last two hours of the trip. Huge monsters. On that trip there were deer, moose, salamanders, porcupines, and an eagle. So if the state doesn't stock them they aren't going to be there and people would eat bluegill.

For me they can be bit finicky red worm/nightcrawler l would say work better than power bait

@butterkan3584

Ай бұрын

Depends sometimes they hit better on powerbait sometimes they hit better on worms

@fishydinner44

Ай бұрын

I can’t catch trout for shit

@Fishing_mission

Ай бұрын

@@fishydinner44 they can be very skittish in shallow water for me I can’t catch the trout I can see

@nadagainagain4987

26 күн бұрын

I never used powerbait by itself. I pair it with some kind of worm or minnow.

Here in VA you need a fishing license AND a trout license. I got sick of wasting my money on both because i could never catch a single trout.

@Sleeper-Work

Ай бұрын

Same where I'm at. And there's only 1 small and excessively mossy pond near me that they actually stock. Just not worth it.

My grandma told me trout tastes like mud. After that, it never tasted the same to me again. This is coming from a lady that was married to a commercial fisherman

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.

In My country It's prohibited to use powerbaits, Worms or any other (passive) bait on stocked Waters. Only fly and spin fishing (active fishing) Is allowed. And It's way more fun than just sit/stand and wait For a bite... U miss half the fun without that good old strike

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

I've raised juvenile rainbow trout in fish tanks before they grew rather quickly one survived for 4 years in a fish tank

They should be spending more on restoring the habitat of the wild trout rather than only stocking

@CarterJamesFeichtinger

22 күн бұрын

How so?

@elguaje7.

21 күн бұрын

@@CarterJamesFeichtinger by constantly stocking they’re only putting a plaster on the bigger picture problem which is habitat loss and reduced water quality. They could start by adding small pea sized gravel to streams that were historically dug to improve drainage. At least the wild ones have a chance to spawn then. Catching wild trout is a lot more satisfying, a feeling a lot of people unfortunately don’t even know these days

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.

OK, I love to see trout, getting stocked into lakes, but the thing I have a problem with how the government are raising the fish like we don’t know what they’re feeding them and some people as well as myself like to go to the lake and catch fish and eat them

Got into stock trout 2 years ago and love it, never knew about it. Funny thing I’ve tried the same power bait you showed haven’t caught a single fish, but the Berkeley mice tails limit out every time

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.

No thanks ! I do NOT eat GMO fish ☣

There are many reasons why the DNR stock lakes with fish primarily being to alter the habitat

They do NOT taste good. I cought and ate a wild cutthroat out of a pure lake in BC. Nuh uh, the stockies are D-tier.

@joselopez-he1mc

27 күн бұрын

Worst tasting fish ever for me was a freshly caught stock trout. I can eat tilapia though I dislike it but the trout was inedible. I eat just about everything but I threw it away.

Makes me wonder if the government owns stock in Power Bait 🤔

I'm in Colorado. Trout are so tasty. We've got all different types of trout here.

What the rainbow bite best on for me is minnows

@tristendunn1808

Ай бұрын

I catch alot of big browns by drifting gulp minnows

I dont think its for fun... its to make up for all the dams lol

I'm raised in North Florida the West Bay area when I moved up to the Pacific Northwest and I heard about this. I panicked. Granite I've been to the nice stocked ponds in Florida. But they were farming them. There was one that had stocked catfish ponds that would clean them and fry them for you right after you caught them. That was pretty cool.

bro the video loop is so clever 👏🏻

If humans would stop ruining habitat the fish wouldn't need to be farmed.

The real question is, why do they have to keep stocking them? Shouldn't they procreate?

@BuckBlaziken

17 күн бұрын

Mostly to control human behavior. If these fish don’t get caught people will deplete the ecosystem and move on to the next river or stream and deplete that population too. By artificially stocking, this can be mitigated. This is done because it has happened many times before back in the 1800’s.

“Sure enough”

One of the few things i approve of government meddling with

Wish they would stock largemouth bass here in ri then smaller baits so the bass could get bigger

Stocking trout is simply a pension maker

I hear sweet corn in the can works amazing

Never used powerbait by itself I usually pair it with a worm or minow

They taste like nothing. Try eating a wild brookie then compare that to a stocked rainbow trout.

@joselopez-he1mc

27 күн бұрын

Worst than nothing. I'm not picky but I couldn't finish it.

Fishing license? Damn, I’ve been breaking the law this whole time

Yeah, one of the nordic countries had such a problem with farmed salmon and cod always contracting diseases and genetic problems that when they escaped into the wild almost all the salmon and cod contracted those ilnesses, so many countries that get fish from the baltic have to disclose that the fish came from there, basically admiting the fish is bad

I'm extremely sad they plan to cut trout stockings in Oregon by me by more then 50% soon

When was a kid... We could fish the same spot, same time, catch two of the same fish. One was white meat one was pink meat. Twas explained to us one was planted one was wild. Go Wild:

They do it so they can pay their buddies a ton of money to raise the fish.

Yo try using the scent gel stuff on a small curly tail jig it’s soooo good

It started out like a conspiracy theory

Forget power bait, farm raised trout can’t resist Velveeta cheese.

Best bait ever. I have well over $200 worth of it stocked up.

Love trout fishing! But too bad historically trout have been dumped in areas they don’t belong and have wiped out native species like yellow legged frogs in several areas.

yeah, stocking fish that are not adopted to the environment...

"Believe it or not, they taste great, too." Americans not knowing about the prices trout that Europe has enjoyed for over 1,000 years 😂

I don't know why, but I never had much luck with trout even on stocked lakes and ponds. I've caught everything else from bass, catfish, crappies, Pickerel etc, etc but the trout never bite and I've used an array of different power baits and real worms.

It also ruins entire ecosystems but we ain't gonna talk about that, right? Lol I'm an avid fishermen but honestly creeks are becoming ghost towns due to farm run offs, invasive carp, and stocking fish in places they don't belong. Ruining native brook trout fishing and really I don't even like to fish much anymore 😢

They don't throw them in with 5 gallon buckets yall...they do it by hand, jeeze 😂

Belchertown hatchery was a fun tour.

So basically, a parbaked is like showing them something from the childhood, like a toy or something like that I’m ordering them in that’s evil 😂

Thank you for making this video available on KZread. Great information.

I love it when my Internet barely allows me to see shapes in short videos.

I wish people in my country would refurbish waters instead of putting so much rainbows. But I must say they are fun to fish. Imagine kids with spinners and they get trout instead of small pike

That right the Yellowstone cutthroat trout was never west of the continental divide.

I hope they start doing this with fish like salmon

Stocking my backyard pond need some tips on to catch them for first week

Powerbait is for you to put on your other line while you are actually fishing with your main line. Dont be lame. Fish with lures, much more fun and satisfying.

Could get the natives to quit spearing them, but that never fucking works out

Rooster Tails for the win tho

They also take over, I've seen 1st hand used to b able to catch small and largemouth bass in the small creek that runs through the small town I grew up in. Now there is absolutely zero bass in this creek.

Wow what would we do without the government

Power bait doesn't work 9 out of 10 times, for people who don't fish stocked ponds.

I've been fishin for 30 years and just now learned why power bait looks the way it does. But tbh I've never fished for trout.im not even sure if there in ohio

I catch and release. But if I did keep one it eat, it wouldn't be one raised on guppy-chow.

the 30% out of my check wasn't enough lol

Well, that's one of the few good things Government can do!😊

“And they taste great too” lmao comparatively, they taste like dog food 😂

sure nice of the government to raise catfish bait for me

They don’t taste great tho…. The meat is more white and mushy then wild caught trout which should be an orange to red color like salmon.

@joselopez-he1mc

27 күн бұрын

Awful taste though it was caught only 2 hours ago.

Another words... "Chinese fire drill".

I thought it was meant to look like fish eggs which other fish love. I think its illegal in some states to use stuff the imitates fish eggs

Rainbow trout. Brown trout. Gold trout! Trout is bests eating fish !!!

So around 3 years ago we went to this lake in the black hills and me and my brother caught over 30 trout but cooked 4 of them and i can confirm they taste great.

I've never had luck catching stock trout with powerbait, but they LOVE spinners. IDK, maybe the stock trout where I'm from just have fish autism or something.

Love your content keep up the great work

When i was little i had some of that trout and the meat was so soft and fine and the taste was very lightly fishy yet sweet it was so tasty! Just put a little salt and pepper and paprika and slap it on foil with butter on the grill... Finish with a little lemon and its so so so tasty

The state trout season and the fisherman that come with it have made me sick over the years.

Yup I used power bait I found some on the ground once and nothing was biting so I just threw pieces of it into the lake

The main reason I don't care for fresh water fishing. Suck a limited species of fish, and most all just came out of a controlled environment. It's like setting chickens loose on the farm to shoot and calling it bird hunting

Do they have to release them so violently? Crazy thought I know, but why not gently put the net or the bucket into the water.

The ecosystem in question: