To stock or not to stock a wild trout stream. That is the question.

Tim J. wrote:
typed:
daytripper wrote:
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/localnews/ci_4200376

Discuss.

Something I would like to get clear before I make up myu mind on this.

From this article from the Burlington Free Press:

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:...s&ct=clnk&cd=4

"In addition, the stocked rainbows would probably crowd out the wild
fish as they compete for the few hiding places. That's the last thing
the wild trout need or deserve.
Finally, the river and its wildlife are already under great stress
from both drought and high water. This is not the time to increase the
pressure on the river's overall health or the fish trying to survive
there."

So let me get this absolutely straight.

The anglers are, at once, concerned that the stocked rainbow would
stress the wild trout and it's also suggested that the wild trout are
under "GREAT STRESS FROM BOTH DROUGHT AND HIGH WATER" (which makes no
damned sense?) yet, the anglers continue to catch and release these
fish anyway?

Help me understand what is *really* going on here.

Here's what's going on (reprinted from alt.flyfishing):
I did notice that you showed back up at ROFF, after saying your good-byes
a
few weeks back?

Op

Nothing more than going back and trolling in the easy holes. Satsifies
my jones a little while we get our community established here.

Your pal,

TBone
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TL,
Tim
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The Walmart article was an easy hole. This is not an easy hole, by any
stretch of the imagination. I might even (3) putt on this one. I have
also mailed another letter to Vermont F&G asking about the stress of
catch and release on trout that are greatly stressed by draught,
relative to the stress of 1,000 additional fish and where the
'sincerity' about the health of the population was.

TBone
Guilt replaced the creel.