Fantastic Morning on Great Seneca Creek

Type: Nontidal
Region: Central
Location: Great Seneca Creek

I had a great morning trout fishing with my fianc� Katarina Milosevich on Saturday. The morning started out very slow with her only catching one trout in the first two hours. We then found a honey hole and limited out in 45 minutes on some nice sized trout. Thank you DNR for stocking these great fish and allowing my fianc� to enjoy what trout fishing is all about. When I was cleaning them when I got home I found a screw in the stomach of one of the fish.

I have a couple questions about what I was told by my fellow fishermen on Saturday. Do I need to have a separate stringer for each angler or can I have 10 trout on one stringer for both of us? Also do I have to stop fishing for trout in put & take areas once I have reached my limit? Thanks again DNR.

DNR Response: Always keep your catch separate from others, the Natural Resource Police would have no idea whose fish are whose and would be forced to write a ticket if for example the second angler wasn�t nearby when the officer checked your catch.

Do you have to stop fishing once you meet your creel limit in a put & take area? While there is no regulation in place which prohibits an angler from continuing to fish a put & take area once their limit is reached, the Department recommends the angler switch from bait to artificial in order to minimize mortality rates and avoid unnecessary wasting of fish. Additionally, it is still against the law to cull or hand caught fish to someone else once a creel is met.