Salomone: The value in stocked trout

Water ran over the rocks cemented into a sculpted ditch the park called a “stream.” The concrete pond named after President Dwight Eisenhower claimed to be a lake. The California stocking program put trout into the small impoundment, which recycles the cloudy blue water in a persistently running circuit, last week. The lake, with its shallow edges and deep center, filled with four bubbling fountains, was circled by anglers. I held the only fly rod to be seen. We were all here for the trout. Stocked trout, in Southern California — it was hard to believe. The same type of trout I encounter in Colorado. Stocker is a term referring to trout which come from a hatchery. Usually rainbow trout, these fish are placed in waters across the state by Colorado Parks and Wildlife. They are the same type of fish raised in California hatcheries as well as numerous other states in an effort to maintain continuity and quality of angling in regularly fished locations.

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