2015 Brook Trout Volunteer Creel Diary

Name ______

Stream Name Hours BKT Estimated BKT BKT BKT BKT Date Gear Type Lengths of BKT Kept (list on back of page) Fished Caught Catch? Kept (0-8”) (8-12”) (12”+) 01/01/2015 Upper Savage River Artificials 5.5 15 Yes/No 2 10 4 1 10, 13

For more information or for a new blank form, please contact Matt Sell at Matt.Sell@maryland.gov or 301-689-7168 Please return completed forms at the end of the year to: Maryland DNR Fisheries Service, c/o Matt Sell, 301 Braddock Road, Frostburg, MD 21532

If you would be willing to allow us to contact you with questions about your creel data, or would like to be sent a report of our results, please provide your contact information here: Email ______Phone Number ______

Instructions 1. Only include brook trout trip information. 2. Trips with no catch are as important to us as trips with catch! 3. Choose a Stream Name below. If you did not fish in any of these watersheds, write the name of the watershed where you fished. 4. Choose a Gear Type from the list below. 5. If more than one gear type is used on a given trip, fill out a separate row for each gear type used. You might use up to three rows for a single trip. 6. Record trip length to the nearest half-hour. 7. Please COUNT the number of fish caught. If total catch must be estimated, please indicate. 8. Measure all fish - do not estimate lengths. 9. Record the number of fish caught in each size range. 10. Record the lengths of all fish kept.

Stream Names Gear Type Examples Antietam Creek Lower Monocacy River Bait Earthworms, minnows, mealworms, maggots Casselman River Lower Savage River Artificials Inline spinners, crankbaits, jigs, soft plastic lures Catoctin Creek Octoraro Creek Flies Artificial flies, including streamers Conococheague Creek Potomac River Allegany Cnty Deep Creek Lake Potomac River Frederick Cnty Deer Creek Potomac River Lower North Branch Evitts Creek Potomac River Montgomery Cnty Fifteen Mile Creek Potomac River Upper North Branch Georges Creek Potomac River WA Cnty Accurate counts of brook trout caught Gunpowder River Prettyboy Reservoir are critical to the results of this study! Gwynns Falls Seneca Creek Jones Falls Sideling Hill Creek Please use any means necessary to Liberty Reservoir Tonoloway Creek COUNT the number of fish caught. Licking Creek Town Creek Little Conococheague Upper Monocacy River Little Gunpowder Falls Upper Savage River Little Tonoloway Creek Western Branch Little Youghiogheny R Wills Creek Loch Raven Reservoir Youghiogheny River Lower Gunpowder Falls