I'll chime in on this one here......
Is it a cool program? Sure.... Trout, ya everyone loves to have a snack of the small ones, and sometimes a few crayfish for a side dish
But seriously......
The creek drains, or goes to nill during freeze up.
The fish exurte themselves tryin to forage on a small city Cr, with the only haven other than deeper pools and said existing structure is the Ottawa River at the end of the down flow way.
RJ said "A nice Pike snack" Yuppers RJ, along with Smallies, Eye's and for sure cat's and other predators who might hang in the mouth region, or in this said section of the Ottawa...
I'm not a Biologist or am I employed by the MNR either... But if you want I can ask for a good friend(Who is) input from his hand, to which we have spoken of this topic before.
The Ottawa R, awsome River indeed!! World class fishery for many, and potential to hold many areae's of fish.
Area said for stocking "Trout"......... The lower section is brutally warmer than the upper say Pembroke, more traffic, buisness waste dumpage (Not saying it's to dirty) But the water out here IMO cannot sustain a healthy turn around of any type of salmonoid
There is not enough forage for them to tend to before another fish species either gets it 1st, or the trout becomes the forage 1st!
For any sort of a turn around possible the area of said stocking, should 1st and formost be "NON-FISHABLE" the mortality rate to ANY TYPE OF stocked fish is ENOURMUS ON ANY SYSTEM!!!! It takes yrs to re-introduce a species to if any sort of healthy level, and puttin 300 anglers on a small Cr with freshly stocked farmed fish to have at em
Good Luck. You need to TRY to "INTRODUCE" these fish, not put em in a Cr and say ok, let's have at em
Worth a try? SURE, Why Trout, I dunno either, Eye's stand a much better chance with the surroundings.
And lord knows, someone luckily lands one of those said stocked 5+lbers.... Fish is....DEAD!
Stocking a cold water fish into a warm water area ESP AT 5+lbs, the culture shock will prolly knock off over 50% of them 1st, and then another 25% will become forage, and the 15% that land on a hook at 7"s or even 12" will be so stressed by a hook in face and out of water, they are gone too. And IF luckily the remaining 10%, 5 of who don't see a dinner plate, and the remaining 5% who might make it out into the river and maybe get on.... You'll be awfull hard pressed to find em anywhere near where they were stocked, if they do survive.
The MNR and OFAH Have and are STILL Trying to "RE-INTRODUCE" Atlantic Salmon to LAKE ONTARIO, and we are talking close to 3 MILLION Fish this spring alone
and a ton of people think it's a waste of money, and it might very well be. This is a hugely funded program, nothing like 5000 into the Ottawa R. It's a big river, and not to many nice cool run-off tributaries in the said area to try in, most Cr's are 90% through spring, summer and mostly fall are: weed/bass/pike infested and stagnant water surrounded.
But heck, I've tossed my input thus far in, but IMO, for the kids, there are many more bluegills to catch for a fun time
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.to get my daily dose off trout snak.. 
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...where those it goes...some stay in some deaper pools other ones go in the river...like you said mabe a pike snak....the pike must taste good around there.
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