They had to originally been planted. Not native to the West. The original
plants were in the Sacramento River in about 1885. Shipped across country
in milk cans on the railroad. We used to have a couple of million fish in
the bay and delta. Commercial fishery even. Then the California water
project pumps so much water to SoCal that the fishery in the delta hurts big
time. But all the lakes in the aquaduct system are good striper lakes.
Bill

"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
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In Pleasant thats the way they think they came in, but I always figured
the
Colorado River for a natural migration historically. Recently I have been
told I was wrong, and that they were planted in Lake Powell deliberately
and
have migrated down the river from there.

Central Arizona Project ( CAP ) takes Colorado River water across the
state
to the Phoenix area as well as to some farming areas in between.


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"J Buck" wrote in message
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How do stripers get into Arizona?

In the original post, this was stated "Officials say stripers most
likely entered the lake as eggs or larvae when water was pumped into the
reservoir from the Central Arizona Project Canal system."

Oops, my bad. Sorry. 'When all else fails, read the original post' LoL