Not sure how many of you have been keeping track of this but it is pretty good news. Hopefully it will only continue to get better.

http://www2.dailypro...rout-ar-747712/

There are of course other issues impacting the population of the brook trout in VA such as the controversial stocking of non-native trout. At one of the streams that we fish throughout the year, we've been catching more brown trout each time we go. It could just be our fishing tactics but it can't be a good sign.

That's great news!

A little over a year ago I went on a fishing/camping trip in West Virginia, on the west side of the Allegheny Mountains. When we had trouble even seeing fish rise, I started flipping rocks looking for bugs. Nothing. Even downstream of areas limed by TU. We gave up after trying a few locations and moved our campsite to the east side of the mountains, just over the Virgina/West Virginia border. Suddenly, there were stream bugs, and we caught fish. Amazing effect of acid rain combined with the mountain range! It would have been interesting to have a pH kit.

With modern coal mining technologies, it's amazing any mountains were even left....

Good news.

Here in NC the biggest threats to brook trout are development and rainbow trout