Animals: Trout Opener

In the East this year a mild winter yielding to early spring let State Fish & Game Commissions begin stocking trout streams last month a fortnight early. When anglers flocked for the opening of the season last week, they found hundreds of thousands of smart, gamy trout, rid of hatchery loginess, ready for sport. Some newsworthy openers:

ΒΆ In Pennsylvania day before the opening, Governor George H. Earle signed a bill to permit Sunday fishing, first time since 1794. That evening, the Governor repaired to Cumberland County, dropped in hook & worm shortly after...

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