I started my trout fishing at Bennett, then RR, then Taney, then White river, and now have plans to trout fish Colorado next summer. each place different. I don't look down my nose at anyone who fishes any of these type settings. I know some that do. The sooner we all realize it can definitely get worse the better off we are. The city population is rising and a majority and they have the ability to determine what might happen to the programs that affect us country people. If young kids in the city are exposed to fishing favorably its got to be a win win situation. It will probably never be agreed upon on how the dollars should be spent but the fact they are spent on a program that may insure my grandkids can trout fish in Missouti seems good to me. I have long said its not much different than the gun control issue. The "Auntie" in the city doesn't care about us hunters having firearms to hunt with when her son, nephew and the father of her children were killed with a gun. That segment of the population has the numbers to outvote us country folk if they so choose.
Sure i would love to see more trout in more natural settings. Its not the same standing on a sidewalk fishing for trout as it is out in a natural setting. But, as someone already said it is a state agency and the urban stocking program caters to a large portion of the state population.