egildone wrote:

In 2005, Jason Archie caught a 17 lb. 33 in. state record Brown Trout in
that river that they believe was from the first stocking in 1989. Of
course, we haven't had a 100 year flood since then either.

It may be different there, but we've had at least a couple of "100
year floods" in the last 10 years. :-}

We also have another river where we have year around trout fishing, the
lower Illinois. Some fishermen catch the trout and use them for bait to
catch 30 in. plus Stripers that come up from the Arkansas river.

One of our part-time ROFFians refers to the stocked trout in a lake
near where he lives as "striper candy".


Chuck Vance (where is Big Dale, anyway?)