There ARE strippers in Colorado.
Nonindigenous Occurrences: Striped bass have been widely stocked in nonindigenous waters from New York to California. Introductions of striped bass have been reported from Alabama (Boschung 1992; Bailey 1975; Kelly 1969); Arizona (St. Amant 1959; Miller and Lowe 1967; Edwards 1974; Tyus et al. 1982; Tilmant 1999; USFWS 2005); Arkansas (Gray 1958; Buchanan 1973; Bailey 1975; Pflieger 1975; Grabowski et al. 1984; Cross et al. 1986); California (Smith 1896; Shebley 1917; Surber 1958; St. Amant 1959; Moyle 1976a; Wydoski and Whitney 1979; Dill and Cordone 1997; Tilmant 1999; Sommer et al. 2001; Matern et al. 2002; California Department of Fish and Game 1931; Neale 1931);
Colorado (Everhart and Seaman 1971; Grabowski et al. 1984; Rasmussen 1998); Florida (Ware 1971; Swift et al. 1977; Grabowski et al. 1984; Bailey 1975); Georgia (Dahlberg and Scott 1971b; Yerger 1977; Martin and Hess 1984; Burkhead et al. 1997; Bailey 1975); Hawaii (Maciolek 1984); Illinois (Smith 1979; Burr and Page 1986; Laird and Page 1996); Indiana (Lee et al. 1980 et seq.); Iowa (Burr and Page 1986; Cross et al. 1986; Harlan et al. 1987); Kansas (Lee et al. 1980 et seq.; Cross et al. 1986); Kentucky (Bailey 1975; Clay 1975; Burr and Page 1986; Burr and Warren 1986; Hocutt et al. 1986); Louisiana (Douglas 1974; Grabowski et al. 1984; Conner and Suttkus 1986; Bailey 1975); Maryland (Surber 1958; Bailey 1975; Pritchard et al. 1978; Grabowski et al. 1984); Michigan (Cudmore-Vokey and Crossman 2000); Minnesota (Phillips et al. 1982); Mississippi (Pritchard et al. 1978; Bailey 1975); Missouri (Pflieger 1975, 1997; Cross et al. 1986; Young et al. 1997; Rasmussen 1998; Bailey 1975); Nebraska (Jones 1963; Morris et al. 1974; Pritchard et al. 1978; Cross et al. 1986; Bouc 1987); Nevada (Edwards 1974; Deacon and Williams 1984; Grabowski et al. 1984; Tilmant 1999; Insider Viewpoint 2001; Vinyard 2001); New Jersey (Surber 1958; Grabowski et al. 1984); New Mexico (Grabowski et al. 1984; Sublette et al. 1990); New York (Grabowski et al. 1984); North Carolina (Surber 1958; Bailey 1975; Grabowski et al. 1984; Menhinick 1991; Jenkins and Burkhead 1994); North Dakota (North Dakota Game and Fish Department 1994, 1997; Rasmussen 1998); Ohio (Trautman 1981; Burr and Page 1986); Oklahoma (Hall 1956; Surber 1958; Grabowski et al. 1984; Cross et al. 1986); Oregon (Moyle 1976a; Wydoski and Whitney 1979; Grabowski et al. 1984; Bond 1994; State of Oregon 2000; Chapman 1942); Pennsylvania (Denoncourt et al. 1975a; Hendricks et al. 1979; Cooper 1983); South Carolina (Surber 1958; Bailey 1975; Grabowski et al. 1984), stocked in Santee-Cooper Reservoir (Kelly 1969); Tennessee (Smith-Vaniz 1968; Grabowski et al. 1984; Etnier and Starnes 1993; Bailey 1975); Texas (Moczygemba and Morris 1977; Conner and Suttkus 1986; Anonymous 1992a; Howells 1992a; Rasmussen 1998; Bailey 1975; Texas Parks and Wildlife Department 1993); Utah (Tyus et al. 1982; Grabowski et al. 1984; Tilmant 1999); Virginia (Lee et al. 1980 et seq.; Hocutt et al. 1986; Jenkins and Burkhead 1994); Washington (Setzler et al. 1980); West Virginia (Trautman 1981; Hocutt et al. 1986; Stauffer et al. 1995); and Wisconsin (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources 1998).
Means of Introduction: Intentionally stocked for sportfishing. Some records involved fish dispersed to other areas far from point of original introduction, for instance, downstream of reservoirs after passage over or through dams (e.g., Pflieger 1997).
Status: Reported as locally established in many states. Annual stocking of lakes and reservoirs maintains the sport fishery. Attempts to establish this species in the Youghiogheny River, Pennsylvania, failed (Hendricks et al. 1979). Not established in Colorado (Walker 1993). Not established in the Great Lakes (Cudmore-Vokey and Crossman 2000).
Impact of Introduction: Preys on small fishes. Bailey (1975) summarized what was known about impacts of stocked striped bass on clupeids in lakes and reservoirs in the Southeast. Maumelle Reservoir, Arkansas, had a possible reduction in clupeids; Toledo Bend and D'Arbonne reservoirs, Louisiana, had slight reductions; J. Percy Priest Reservoir, Tennessee, had a significant reduction; and Hunter land Julianna reservoirs suffered drastic reductions. Morgan and Gerlach (1950) reported finding numerous trout and salmon fry and fingerlings in striped bass stomachs at Coos Bay, Oregon.
Remarks: The Striped Bass is a highly prized sportfish. Bailey (1975) provided a table of locations, numbers, and factors affecting success of Striped Bass stocked in the Southeast, and the outcome. Setzler et al. (1980) provided a biological synopsis of this species. Some introductions in native range are of fish from another area, i.e., Atlantic Slope fish stocked in Gulf tributaries. Boschung (1992) states that native stocks probably no longer exist in Alabama except in the Chattahoochee drainage, having been replaced eslswhere by Atlantic coast stocks.
Nobriga et al. (2013) examined the effects of juvenile Striped Bass on Delta Smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus) population dynamics, finding no correlation between between juvenile bass abundance and smelt survival and low estimates of consumption of smelt by juvenile bass.
Matlock (2014) discusses the historical status (native vs. non-native) of Striped Bass in Texas, and the potential policy implications.
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And no striper trolling................................The oceans have the same percentage of salts as our bodies for a reason, which is we are one................
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