2024 Tulpehocken Creek Survey

2024 TULPEHOCKEN CREEK SURVEY

Our chapter would like to collect feedback from fisherman to better understand how the quality of fishing in the delayed harvest section has been in the past 10 years.

SECTION I: FISHING THE TULPEHOCKEN CREEK IN 2023

1. What area of the Tulpehocken Creek did you fish most often in? (check one)
2. About how many days did you spend at least part of the day fishing the Tulpehocken Creek?
3. I fish the Tulpehocken Creek using …
Nymphs
3. I fish the Tulpehocken Creek using …
Emergers
3. I fish the Tulpehocken Creek using …
Dry Flies
3. I fish the Tulpehocken Creek using …
Other artificial lures
4. How many miles one-way did you typically travel to reach your fishing location on the Tulpehocken Creek?
5. Overall, how satisfied were you with your fishing experiences on the Tulpehocken Creek? (check one)
6. Your satisfaction with Tulpehocken Creek fishing may have been influenced by some of the following. To what extent do you disagree or agree that each of the following statements affected your satisfaction with fishing the Tulpehocken Creek. (selection one for each item)
Water quality on the river is poor
There are too many anglers
There are too many anglers
I don’t catch many fish
I don’t catch many fish
I catch too many small fish
I catch too many small fish
I don’t catch enough trophy fish
I don’t catch enough trophy fish
The regulations are complicated
The regulations are complicated
The regulations are restrictive
The regulations are restrictive

SECTION II: YOUR HISTORY ON THE TULPEHOCKEN CREEK

7. About how many years have you fished the Tulpehocken Creek?
8. In what year did you first fish the Tulpehocken Creek?
9. In the past ten years how many years have you fished the Tulpehocken Creek? (check one)
10. During the 10-year period in general, would you say the number of days in a year you fish the Tulpehocken Creek has been increasing, decreasing or staying about the same? (check one)
11. How important is fishing the Tulpehocken Creek to you in comparison to your other fishing destinations? Would you say that fishing the Tulpehocken Creek is… (check one)
12. In the past three years have you fished other rivers or streams for trout in Pennsylvania? (check one) (If no, please skip the next question)
13. Compared to other trout rivers or streams in Pennsylvania would you say the fishing quality on the Tulpehocken Creek is… (check one)
14. In the years that you’ve fished the Tulpehocken Creek, how would you say each of the following has changed? (check one for each item)
Number of fish I catch
Average size of fish I catch
Average size of fish I catch
Water quality
Water quality
Crowding from other anglers
Crowding from other anglers
Overall management of the river
Overall management of the river
15. In general, would you say that fishing the Tulpehocken Creek has improved or worsened in the years you’ve been fishing? (check one)
16. Your answer to question 15 may have been influenced by various factors. If you checked worsened in question 15, please check 2 boxes in the Worsened column, if you checked improved in question 18, please check 2 boxes in the Improved column.
Worsened
Improved
Improved
17. How many inches long was the largest brown trout that you caught in the past 10 years from the Tulpehocken Creek?
18. How many inches long was the largest rainbow trout that you caught in the past 10 years from the Tulpehocken Creek?
19. How many inches long would a brown or rainbow trout from the Tulpehocken Creek need to be for you to consider it a “trophy” fish?
20. How many holdovers vs stocked trout would you estimate that you caught in 2023?
21. How many wild trout would you estimate that you caught in 2023?
22. Other than brown and rainbow trout, please check other species of fish do you catch on the Tulpehocken Creek?
23. How would you characterize your spring, summer and fall catch rates?
24. Is your spring catch rate significantly higher than the fall?
25. Think about the legal sized trout you caught from the Tulpehocken Creek. Would you say that you released all legal trout, released some and kept others, or kept all legal trout from the Tulpehocken Creek? (check one)
26. In the years that you’ve been fishing the Tulpehocken Creek, would you say that your catch-and-release fishing of legal sized trout has… (check one)
27. These last two questions will help us compare your answers to those of other Tulpehocken Creek anglers.
Are you:
How old are you?
How old are you?