"Willi" wrote in message
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What change(s) would you like to see in how your State manages its
fisheries?

I'd say manage more waters for native trout.

(What I'd REALLY like are stream access laws like they have in Montana
but that's not a management issue)

I guess the native trout thing is a grand idea, but not workable here in
Massachusetts. Too many people, not enough cold water. We have mostly
glacial scrubbed, wide, low flow, low gradient sterile streams and most of
those are dammed to hell. F&W is (in my opinion) trying to identify waters
with sustainable populations (and that includes a few streams with
reproducing browns and even one or two with reproducing rainbows) with the
ultimate goal of encouraging them. However, and a mighty big however, the
emphasis is, and will remain, planting catchable trout for the meat
fishermen. In a sense, that might actually help the few streams that hold
real trout, albeit 4-6" brookies in tiny streams. The thing I really want
them to do is implement a trout stamp for those people who want to fish for
the stocked trout. I would prefer not to subsidize that folly and prefer to
fish for wild reproducing fish (limiting myself to warmwater species that
is).

--Stan