Canandaigua Lake Brown Trout Stocking

[Sk8man]

3,000 9 inch browns stocked today at the pier at north end. No seagulls noted nearby and no floaters. Hopefully some wwill make it through adulthood

[camper4lyfe]

Only 3000? That seems pretty low for a lake that size. Springwater Creek is getting 4000 rainbows next month. 

[Sk8man]

I believe it was only a partial stocking. They were from the Rome hatchery

Edited April 24, 2023 by Sk8man

[Fishmaster196]

Great to hear good info.

[salmoseine]

DEC stocking schedule calls for 6800 this spring...

[Trouthunter]

Not to bad that lake is a premier rainbow fishery do not screw it up they get some spawning brown in naples creek that recruit well. I wish they allowed us to keep 2 rainbows in the lake great lake to catch numbers of beautiful bows

 

Edited April 24, 2023 by Trouthunter

[Sk8man]

The browns have been in the lake and Naples Creek for years and they seem to be getting along OK

[Fishmaster196]

I remember years ago I fished off the yacht club with one of my FLCC professors,and we caught limits of browns on a cold snowy day in february. Awesome fishery beautiful lake.

[dremarquis]

Is this the first year in a long time they are stocking Hemlock with rainbows? I thought it had been all natural reproduction for many years....

[camper4lyfe]

20 minutes ago, dremarquis said:

Is this the first year in a long time they are stocking Hemlock with rainbows? I thought it had been all natural reproduction for many years....

I was talking to my cousin about this, and this is the first rainbow stocking in a while.  I guess they were pushing for browns recently, and they've been fighting it, so he was happy to hear they will be raonbows that are going in.

[JJBat150]

4 hours ago, dremarquis said:

Is this the first year in a long time they are stocking Hemlock with rainbows? I thought it had been all natural reproduction for many years....

 

The stocking of rainbows in Springwater creek started in 2021.   4000 each spring.