1.   Amid the tinderbox that is the Green Ridge State Forest, Zumbrun can walk across a dry stream that would be teeming with stocked trout in most years.

2.   Dr. Andrew Blaustein, a zoology professor at Oregon State University, added that stocked trout could also transmit a fungus, saprolegnia.

3.   Forget stocked trout.

4.   Stocked trout are the best spring game, though the smallmouth bass and yellow perch hang in there as the season warms.

5.   Take children flyfishing for stocked trout on public water in the East and watch as their attention span shrinks with every passing minute.

6.   Verify the retention and resistance of the coded wire tags attached to stocked trout.