steve,
It wasn't the farmers it was the Nevada water board, which strange as it
seems, controlled the flow even though the water is in California. I was up
there the year it happened and the fellow who owned the Marina was so mad he
was spitting nails. It was just a sea of mud. I drove down below for a
mile or so and the stream was also a river of mud. They won't do it again.
Cal Trout and other groups took them to court and put limits on how much
they could draw.

"steve" wrote in message
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Not sure if I got the terminology correctly, but this has always been a
trophy trout stream that has had its trophy fish killed off by the
farmers. Is anyone trying to get it this status, or are the farmers too
big of a obstacle?