FROM NORTHERN CALIFORNIA TO THE OZARKS OF MISSOURI: HOW RAINBOW TROUT CAME TO THE SHOW -ME STATE Trout are not native to Missouri. How they got to Missouri is a story takes us along a path that winds from New York to Washington, D.C. to Northern California and finally to Missouri. Along the way, you will see that the plot of this story is much more than just stocking trout into this or that stream. It involves innovations in transportation, the science of propagating trout in hatcheries, and how they were distributed. across the state. Even politics will play an important role along the way. In the end, all of these came together to bring trout to Missouri. It's a love affair that started in the late 1870s and endures to this day.
