Rob and I both live about 15 minutes away from Vaqueros, so there's a large incentive to make sure the fishing close to home is not being destroyed. The lake is currently kind of screwed up from the big drawdown/dam construction. But once they start filling it up again, stocked trout will be important to making it a great fishing lake in the years to come. It used to kick out some nice largemouth and striper, but most of the larger fish are all starved out and skinny now. Not nice.

The lake also is unique in the sense that it's totally artificial, so no pre-existing steelhead condition that I know of. Anyway, getting the trout back sounds like a real possibility at this point. Definitely worth fighting for!