Thread: To stock or not to stock a wild trout stream. That is the question.
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Old August 25th, 2006, 08:20 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.
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Conan The Librarian wrote:

(I daresay there aren't many truly "subsistence"
anglers in the US, and none at all in ROFF)

Apparently people who investigate such matters would
disagree.

And, according to the definition above, I'm a subsistence
angler/hunter. Still working on the last 50 pounds or so
of moose meat (did a crock pot of meat last week, froze
some of it), and added 40 pounds of halibut from AK to the
freezer this summer (had some last night, yum yum!).

That's one possible definition. By that definition I'm a
subsistence angler too. There's no way I would ever define
myself as such. It's far more cost effective to walk over
to the grocery store and buy the farm raised fish. Fishing is
pure recreation for the vast majority of fishermen in the United
States.
- Ken