Dear editor:

I have known many great, sensible Game and Fish employees in our Cody office.

That’s why I cannot understand their twisted attitude concerning brook trout. It’s published that they will eventually eliminate brookies from many streams in the state.

I have not found one person who doesn’t love catching and eating brookies. Tim Wade’s recent article in the Enterprise talked about how he loved fishing small streams. Most of these waters are populated with brookies.

Ten years ago, Sunlight Creek was a great brook trout fishery. My friends and I had a blast catching these fighters. Then the next spring — not one fish. What happened? Nobody will say or wants to talk about it.

The stream is just now starting to come back.

The G&F poisoned Dead Indian Creek so they could plant cutthroats.

After many years, there’s nothing but tiny fish.

They recently poisoned Paint Rock Creek to save the cutthroats. It will be many years before we see fishing there. Several years ago, they also were going to poison Eagle Creek and the Little Horn Creek.

The theory of stocking “trojan” brookies which produce only male offspring will degrade the population until there are none left. In the meantime, the cutthroat population won’t produce keepers for years.

That leaves us with more barren streams.

I believe the G&F is being pressured by groups or big money people to rid our state of brook trout so they can see their so-called endangered cutthroat in all our streams. Our Legislature must limit the number of streams the G&F can treat. If poisoning was put to a vote, Wyoming would deal it a resounding defeat.

Dick Bryan

Cody