Mugwump's Fish World
General Category => News and Announcements => Topic started by: Mugwump on March 07, 2015, 12:42:38 PM
I sure wish that I lived closer......dang.. ;D
All Great Smoky Mountains National Park streams open to fishing for the first time since 1934.
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As of this week all the streams in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are open to fishing for the first time since the park was established in 1934.
The milestone is the result of the park?s reopening of 8.5 miles of Lynn Camp Prong, near Tremont, where for the past six years biologists have worked to remove nonnative rainbow trout and re-establish brook trout, the only trout species native to the Southern Appalachians.
Before the park was established anglers often stocked rainbow and brown trout into the mountain streams. These nonnative fish quickly outcompeted the native brook trout, and to make matters worse, acid rain reduced brook trout populations at elevations above 3,000 feet due to low stream pH.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/local-news/trout07_93857100 (http://www.knoxnews.com/news/local-news/trout07_93857100)