06-06-2012, 02:23 AM
shocked this hasn't gone down hill. End of the day Idaho is Trout Central. There is a reason that there are books written about flyfishing for trout in our waters. It brings people from all over here.
I know lots of people like some of the warm water species and I feel for them. But the F and G isn't going to promote them at the expense of other native fish to our waters. If it is a isolated system that they can be put in to great but if it runs the risk of screwing up a drainage or system tough luck.
As to raising hatchery trout for catching I am not a fan of it personally as it makes no sense to me. I would like to see them taking the funds that they are essentially throwing away in hatchery fish and put them into stream and spawning area improvements to develop self sustaining populations of reproducing fish. We will be better off in the long run if we do it.
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I know lots of people like some of the warm water species and I feel for them. But the F and G isn't going to promote them at the expense of other native fish to our waters. If it is a isolated system that they can be put in to great but if it runs the risk of screwing up a drainage or system tough luck.
As to raising hatchery trout for catching I am not a fan of it personally as it makes no sense to me. I would like to see them taking the funds that they are essentially throwing away in hatchery fish and put them into stream and spawning area improvements to develop self sustaining populations of reproducing fish. We will be better off in the long run if we do it.
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