Robinson Creek Restoration.

[MuskieBait]

A little defensive there...

Hey, I said in the original response that if it is about removing garbage, that's cool and I'm all for it. If it is removing natural obstructions, my thought is to leave it be. It's nature...not human engineered stream calculated and planned to maximize for fish habitat. Fish can find their own suitable habitat.

When a stream floods high enough, suckers can make it up low debris dams or on the side of the debris dam where water overflows. There is no need to assist. This is the nature at work...sometime they can get up, sometimes they don't.

As for trout stocking at Milne Dam...until they remove Milne Dam and the warm stagnant Milne Pond, I don't see the point. Here's an idea...before you stock more trout into Rouge, let's do a study to see how many smolts from the headwaters of Rouge actually survive passing through Milne Pond on their way to the lake. Juvenile rainbows that pass through Milne in summer/fall in that stagnant hot water...hm...might as well call it fish soup.

Downstream of Milne Dam, that's a whole different issue. But how much spawning success is there and rearing habitat there is for rainbow trout? Why is the population still so low? If the habitat is right, you don't need any assistance.

I'm not trying to be negative...but there are a lot of root problems that needs to be solved...and when those are solved, you will need minimal stocking to maintain a SUSTAINABLE population. Put and take fishery is not the long term way to go...just look across the pond at New York State...