Har,
well if bass got big enough to eat 20lb rainbows, I would be all for stocking them.
Seriously, I really don't know what to say on this issue. A rainbow trout is a rainbow trout for the most part (unless it's a steelhead). While I think that it's disappointing that the record would come the way it did, I don't think that it would be fair to disqualify the record. I think what leaves such a bad taste in people's mouth is the type of lake the fish was planted in. If you take that fish and put it in lake Crowley, or Bridgeport, or any number of large fertile lakes, in my mind it becomes a more level playing field where the angler may have to posses some skill to catch the fish. Put that same fish in a small lake with murky water and say "go fish" and it becomes less of a fair persuit between fisherman and fish. Certainly it requires some skill to land a big fish, but I guartantee you that I could go down there to these lakes and smoke big fish on 2 pound test if that was what I felt like doing. I couldn't, on the other hand go to Crowley or Bridgeport and be so assured that I would catch fish so easily.
So those are some more thoughts, maybe not too difinitive. I do appreciate the post on the site and thought that it was very well worded and thought out.

-Rob