It seems like this is happening alot more than is written about or even talked about , on three streams that i fish that have always been known for their native brook and wild brown populations , all of a sudden these little wild looking rainbows are showing up and as yet , after asking numerous people who should have the answer , no one can say for sure where they are coming from. Honestly , on all three streams the state has stocked rainbows , along with brown and brook trout for decades , however , the native brook and wild browns are pretty easily identified just by the look of them , the size , the coloration and fins , all make it fairly easy to say one way or another , stocked or wild/native , maybe it's because we are not used to seeing them , small wild looking rainbows. At first i was a little concerned , these streams are great little producers of wild if not native brook trout and wild browns , if rainbows start reproducing here it might damage the other populations by becoming the dominant species , upsetting a stable eco system that has existed for a long time , after three years of catching these little wonders though i don't see anything changed other than the fact that there are now what appear to be wild rainbows TOO.
