I do think that it is a waste of money to raise 2.6 million trout when the equipment at so many lakes need repair or improvement. If we say that 50% of the people who buy licenses only fish on opening day at $20 for licenses, 60,000 people would have to be buying licenses for one day. The warmwaters are treated like the redheaded stepchildren by the WDFW. When was the last time they stocked bass or crappie? No stockings in recent history. I definitely think it's a waste to poison lakes where there is a viable warmwater fishery. Yup, it's sure worthwhile to poison a lake full of 5 pound bass so that they can have stocker trout put in that will disappear a few weeks after the opener. Yup. A lot of people fish for trout because that's all they know. I saw one guy at a nearby lake with a dead 9" trout on a stringer, and when I pulled an 11" crappie out from under the dock, he asked me "What kind of fish is THAT?". Luckily, as people have moved here from other areas, the fishing opportunities have become more diverse.