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    Default Are they serious about this or what? DFW Fishing in the City

    On DFW's website that have the following page...

    https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/fishing-in-the-city

    ...obviously, they are trying to get people to participate in their "Fishing in the City" program. Sounds good, right? A place close to home where you can fish for a couple hours and maybe even catch one or two. Problem is, it's hard to catch much out of an empty lake or pond.

    I thought I might even go over to one of my local park lakes and give it a shot but then I thought I'd check the stocking schedule...

    https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FishPlants/SearchCriteria.aspx

    ...which I did. Here's what I found about the three closest lakes (or ponds since two of them hardly qualify as "lakes").

    From 11/4/18 to 5/19/19 here's the trout plants, or scheduled plants, in those three closest lakes/ponds. The first one, the biggest, which is about 17 acres or so - stocked 4 times - 11/11 to 11/17/18, 12/16 to 12/22/18, 2/17 to 2/23/19, and 2/24 to 3/2/19. The next one, about an acre and a quarter in size, stocked 2 times - 2/17 to 2/23/19 and 2/24 to 3/2/19. The last one, also about an acre and a quarter, probably slightly larger than the second one actually though, stocked 1 time - 11/11 to 11/17/18.

    So, the last stocking of any of these lakes was at least 69 days ago. How many of those stockers do you think are left from 69 days ago? Do you think that DFW actually did stock any of these lakes? Why would DFW bother to tout "Fishing in the City" and then expect people to fish in essentially empty lakes? Seems like that would be a good way to DISCOURAGE people from fishing instead of encouraging them to do so.

    I mean, if the DFW doesn't want to stock these lakes, fine but if they're trying to get people to fish them shouldn't they put some fish in them?
    Last edited by Fish Dog; 05-10-2019 at 06:14 PM.

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