There are a lot of different kinds out there. Are native Brook trout are char. As for stocked if you want good eating gotta get them freshly stocked and by clubs not the fish commission might like them better. We still have some stocked swimming around but gotta find the creeks that aren’t hot and holds them. We got some nice creeks that can support wild browns and rainbows. I wouldn’t mind going for some native lake trout.
Lake trout are one of very few freshwater fish worth eating IMO.
YNP would love to have more people fish for lake trout in Yellowstone Lake. They, along with brook trout, are considered an invasive species in YNP that they would like to remove. I think that their policy is catch and kill, absolutely no catch and release.
