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Fishing report for Aug. 25
EDITOR'S NOTE: Due to rapidly changing weather conditions in the Sierra and Northern Nevada, anglers are urged to call ahead to the sources listed at the end of each area description for reports on the latest road and water conditions. FRENCHMAN LAKE: Fishing picked up over the last week. Limits of good-sized rainbows (14-16-inches) are being taken at Spring Creek, the boat ramp and the east end of the dam. Nightcrawlers are working best. Chartreuse Powerbait produced limits for a group of fishermen at Nightcrawler Bay, Turkey Point and Lunker Point. Catfish continue to be plentiful around the lake. Wiggin's Trading Post, (530) 993-4683. The Gilly, 358-6113. DAVIS LAKE: Water temperatures are cooling and fishing is improving. The surface temperature was 69 degrees Wednesday and the fish were active.
State debating whether to trout Batten Kill
ARLINGTON, Vt. -- A new debate is beginning about whether to stock the Batten Kill with trout that anglers could keep if caught or whether more steps should be taken to restore the famed stream. The Bennington County Regional Commission held a meeting on Thursday to discuss the state's proposed trout management plan, which calls for stocking the stream with 1,000 sterile rainbow trout in 2007 that could be taken home by anyone who caught them. The prohibition on keeping wild brook and brown trout from the lower stretches of the river would remain. The state's primary goal remains restoring and improving the habitat of the wild trout, it also wants to offer something for people who interested in recreation on the Batten Kill, said Ken Cox, district fisheries biologist for the Fish and Wildlife Department.
My other life - Robert Croft
I'm basically a boy from the country, from Hendy in West Wales. It's something I started doing in those long school holidays in the summer. My grandfather fished, my father fished and it just gets handed down like playing rugby in Wales is handed down from generation to generation. What was your first fish?
Like a cricketer I started with a net. My parents took me down to the local river and I caught a trout. I didn't know at the time that they had taken out it of the freezer earlier. But I didn't care I was, er, hooked after that. What sort of fishing do you specialise in?
Although I do some sea fishing I mainly fly fish. A friend of mine owns a stretch on the River Tawe and that's where you will see me going after salmon and sea trout. What has been your biggest catch?
My biggest fish to date was a beautiful 15lb salmon I landed last September at a stretch of river in Capel Dewi in Carmarthen - one of the most prolific sea trout rivers in the UK.
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