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because 90%+ of the trout they stock they see as put and take. They put them in knowing a huge majority of people will take them.if it weren't for Erie steelies and the hand full of wild trout streams I fish I'd never buy the stamp because of their lets stock them in every ditch on the side of the road mentality. As far as I'm concerned any creek/ river that has any real numbers of wild fish SHOULD NOT be stocked. Stocking those waters just brings the "I paid for a trout stamp so I should kill every legal trout I catch" mentality out which then makes waters that could naturally support themselves become waters that have to be stocked to have fishable numbers of fish
You're 100% CORRECT!
I was walleye fishing the Res on the other side of 29 last week and was going to go check but figured they'd have already closed the gates by the time I got there. If I get a chance I'll take a ride over tomorrow and see if I can find anything out.