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Old August 24th, 2006, 07:09 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
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Default To stock or not to stock a wild trout stream. That is the question.


daytripper wrote:
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/localnews/ci_4200376

Discuss.


Absolutely stock the rainbows. It's the brown trout that anyone
claiming to care about this issue should be worried about. Nobody
responded to the research of August 23rd but a snippet of this (below)
is very, very compelling.

"brown trout were involved in more inter- and intraspecific agonistic
events, initiated 92%
of observed attacks, and displaced the greenback cutthroat trout from
energetically profitable sites in pools and near food sources.This
finding supports the policy of eradicating brown trout (and other
nonindigenous fishes) from streams
managed to preserve or restore greenback and other subspecies of
cutthroat trout."

Your pal,

TBone