The group's uptempo bass lines and fast-paced songs would serve as a basis and influence for many of the later California pop punk bands of the 1990s.
Jim and Hal joined forces with Erik to form Oyster Toilet Mango and eventually the Well Hung Monks.
Sewer Trout broke up when Jim moved to Corvallis, Oregon to join the Beaver's Geology Department and earn his master's degree.
The MacLean brothers developed many of the Sewer Trout songs in 1984 while Jim was in college at Sac State and Hal was in High School in Concord, California.
All of Sewer Trout's material was later released as the compilation album From the Forgotten Memories of Punks Failed Hopes and Dreams Loom in 1997.