No trout this season

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FYI no trout(county). Dfw rules, so that being said I would imagine dfw wont stock aswell. If you guys know anything please post...

[IGOTBIT]

Whhhat the F!?

[Bass Boy 14]

Look on dfg website....says they've been stocking places

[fishing_freak]

they need to start stocking skinner again or all the baby bass will get eaten by the stripers seen it happen it was pretty intense

[Askwhy]

A few weeks back I caught a decent size striper and when I cut it up the stomach was full of baby largemouth bass. So between the lowest water level I have ever seen at skinner and the non stocking of trout your prolly right about the stripers eating more than their share of baby largemouth bass .

[inthroughtheocean]

Skinner hasn't been stocked with trout for a while sooo.........

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I downloaded riverside county trout season schedule and it also says no trout season. Only lakes getting county fish will be rancho jurupa and Cahuilla.

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So much for all the baby bass. They got no chance.

[Viejo]

Also...hatcheries have had budgets reduced which means less fish available for stocking overall.

[seal]

Also...hatcheries have had budgets reduced which means less fish available for stocking overall.

Wasn't there legislature passed that stipulated a certain percentage of our license dollars was to be used for stocking?

Of course the amount of fish available for stocking would have no impact on Skinners since they are part of the concerns about cross breading with native steelhead. I think Kwin mentioned that there is some hope for future plants at Skinner but it will take a while to get approval. Still don't understand why they went to stocking all triploids which would negate any cross breading since triploids are supposedly sterile? I don't know if the reason is that all triploid stockings have not been completely implemented yet or what the deal is. Hell lot's of browns coming out of hatchery's now why not toss those in?

Some stuff from the SB505 bill, last I heard they were not fulfilling this obligation.

"A minimum of 2.25/2.5/2.75 pounds of released trout by
July 1, 2007/2008/2009 and thereafter per number of
sport fishing license sold the preceding year. Most of
the fish planted must be of catchable size

The Heritage and Wild Trout program receives
$2,000,000 from the HIFF for specified purposes.

25 percent of the total amount of trout stocked be
native trout in their original source watersheds.
This goal was to be met on the following schedule:

1. 15 percent/20 percent/25 percent and at
least 4/4/5 species (with restrictions) by July
1, 2010/2011/2012 and thereafter.

2. Required DFG to report by July 1, 2008
and biennially thereafter to the Legislature on
the implementation of AB 7.

According to DFG has had partial, but by no means complete,
success at meeting the AB 7 goals. More complete details
are provided in the second comment below. In 2010, DFG
released a final environmental impact report/statement
(EIR/S) on its hatchery and fish stocking programs in
response to an earlier lawsuit. Fish stocking was
disrupted temporarily in some locations throughout the
state in order to comply with provisions in the EIR/S. DFG
has indicated that this disruption did not impact their
ability to meet AB 7 fish stocking goals. "