i could be wrong about this, lord knows i often am, but weren't many of these trout(almost every species) brought to here origanally and stocked all over? i know that we talk about the good old days, and how once upon a time the you didn't even need a hook the fish just jumped into the boat, but realisticly would most of those fish have been here in the first place if we hadn't put them here. i know that in montana the native species were cutts and brookies, no rainbows or browns, they were brought here from the east, far east like europe east. does this mean i think fishing for these non-native species with bait is okay, i don't know, but i do know that trout aren't some form of untouched natural resourse that we are destroying. by putting more agressive species here we destroyed the native fish generations ago. i'm not trying to justify anyone's opinion pro bait or con, but i do think the reality we fish within is a reality that was created long before any of us were here. should we be more responsible with the resourse we now have? ofcourse, that goes for feather tossers to. i've fished many places and seen so much pressure put on blue ribbon trout streams by fly fisherman that its unreal, guides have told me every fish they take by the end of the summer show marks of being caught time and time again. is that good fishing ethics, to zap these fish over and over i don't know. what am i getting at? we live in the reality that we create and that was given to us by those who came before us, we should do our best to take care off it (through educating ourselves not pointing the finger) however we choose to use it.