plumbertom
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The light fog lay across the fields next to JCP this morning, and there was a small chill in the air, not cold exactly just cool enough to make me want to flip up my hoodie to keep the air off the back of my neck.
The pond was almost glassy smooth with the waters surface being slightly disturbed by a pair of muscovies sampling the water from the bank a short distance from me, and around the bend past the fishing pier, a small paddling of ducks were making little ripplings.
Thus it was at 9 AM when I arrived.
But after two and a half hours of fiddling around on the shore, not really fishing other than tossing a lure a few times. I concluded there would be no fish plant this week.
After speeking with someone in the parking lot,they had talked to the hatchery appearantly, it had been decided that with the low water level the oxygen content of the water was likely too low for trout to survive, and that unless some rain is had soon it will be unlikely that plantings will resume soon.
According to the recreation report, if water conditions prevent a planting in scheduled water, they are diverted to a different water.
I wonder where the JCP 1000 fish went to this week?
I personally cannot use a phone for audio calls to the hatchery for information because I'm deaf. If anyone else has information from them, I'd be interested in reading it.
On another note, I did get to watch a Bald Eagle cruse the pond and sit in a tree for a bit before it swooped down and picked up a fish and flew off toward the River. I also saw one cormorant come up with a fish which it quickly swallowed.
I have no idea what species either bird caught but I doubt they were trout.
The pond was almost glassy smooth with the waters surface being slightly disturbed by a pair of muscovies sampling the water from the bank a short distance from me, and around the bend past the fishing pier, a small paddling of ducks were making little ripplings.
Thus it was at 9 AM when I arrived.
But after two and a half hours of fiddling around on the shore, not really fishing other than tossing a lure a few times. I concluded there would be no fish plant this week.
After speeking with someone in the parking lot,they had talked to the hatchery appearantly, it had been decided that with the low water level the oxygen content of the water was likely too low for trout to survive, and that unless some rain is had soon it will be unlikely that plantings will resume soon.
According to the recreation report, if water conditions prevent a planting in scheduled water, they are diverted to a different water.
I wonder where the JCP 1000 fish went to this week?
I personally cannot use a phone for audio calls to the hatchery for information because I'm deaf. If anyone else has information from them, I'd be interested in reading it.
On another note, I did get to watch a Bald Eagle cruse the pond and sit in a tree for a bit before it swooped down and picked up a fish and flew off toward the River. I also saw one cormorant come up with a fish which it quickly swallowed.
I have no idea what species either bird caught but I doubt they were trout.
