FishingBanter - View Single Post - To stock or not to stock a wild trout stream. That is the question.

**Conan The Librarian** · August 21st, 2006, 07:32 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

wrote:

"In addition, the stocked rainbows would probably crowd out the wild
fish as they compete for the few hiding places. That's the last thing
the wild trout need or deserve.
Finally, the river and its wildlife are already under great stress from
both drought and high water. This is not the time to increase the
pressure on the river's overall health or the fish trying to survive
there."

So let me get this absolutely straight.

The anglers are, at once, concerned that the stocked rainbow would
stress the wild trout and it's also suggested that the wild trout are
under "GREAT STRESS FROM BOTH DROUGHT AND HIGH WATER" (which makes no
damned sense?)

Actually, it does. It is possible to have a flood followed by
drought in the same year.

yet, the anglers continue to catch and release these
fish anyway?

Yeah, they should just catch and kill them. That would solve the
problem.

Help me understand what is *really* going on here.

I think we all understand what's going on here.

Chuck Vance (what's the matter ... not getting any bites on the
other newsgroup?)