In our part of the Colorado river, with the trout and the stripers, they never got to hatch.. The one season they did not stock trout the Caddis fly emerged and it was pretty devastating for several years. We have more fish in the water now than we have ever had and it is finally starting to get under control. Anyone who knows river life would have known but the government did not do the simplest of an environmental impact study that they would make any one of us do. The hubris. It took almost 2 years to complete this thing that McCain helped us with. It should never have happened. It’s what happens when eggheads in Washington make decisions for us in the West. We’ve been fighting that mentality for years. In our case it was all about the endangered species program, but don’t get me started about that!
So, you’ve got lots of caddis flies. Do you complain about all the sand and cacti, too? I’m sure the hatchery upset things when it started up. Things would have settled into balance, regardless. You think stripers are native fishes?