Wayne Harrison wrote:
"Willi" wrote

Trout populations as a whole are higher and healthier
today than they were 20 - 30 - 40........ years ago.

wow, you could have busted my ass on a bet about that, at least as
applied to the north carolina mountain waters... got any numbers on the
smokies, f'rinstance?
thanks.

yfitons
wayno

Yeah, I'd like to see that statistic myself. Still the quality of the
experience is not based on the number of fish alone. By this line of
reasoning the best fishing would be had in a hatchery raceway. All that
said, the fishing was damned good in Colorado and Wyoming in the 1960's
and, thanks to intelligent stocking by the CDOW and, mostly, the
Boulder Fish and Game Club, the overwhelmingly sterile high mountain
lakes now have fish. Of course, if 'conservation' were *really* a goal,
we'd kill every non-indiginous trout on site, would we not?

Your pal,

TBone