Cecil Baird1 - Sounds like I'm lucky to have a good hatchery fairly close to me. Cecil, I have seen some of the trout you've raised so if you say he's good, he must be. The White House thing is pretty cool, too.
My first brook trout were from Castaline because I couldn't find anyone in the midwest that could meet my states disease testing importation requirements. I got 30 10 inch brooks one fall and by the next fall one of them was 3 lbs. 4 oz. Fast growing brook trout to say the least.
And just like Catmandoo said Bryan is held in high regard because he's such a good all around guy. Very nice to deal with.
Sadly if I wanted to get more trout from him I couldn't. His testing although it comes out fine doesn't meet my states requirements now. They want him to slaughter more fish even though he takes a large sample.
I can't even get brook trout from another supplier I found in Michigan because he had a positive for IPN in his brown trout. We're sure it was a false positive though as no other fish were ever brought in and he's never tested positive before. So I can't bring in any of his trout for two or three years of negative tests. My state however has planted IPN positive trout saying it wasn't a problem because they fish weren't dying. Can I do that. NO!
