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Feds say trout hatchery in New Marlborough can stay open
NEW MARLBOROUGH, Mass. The Berkshire Trout Hatchery in New Marlborough will remain open for the foreseeable future. The U-S Fish and Wildlife Service has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with representatives from the Berkshire Trout Hatchery Foundation. The hatchery is the only federal one in Western Massachusetts, and the only volunteer-run hatchery in the country. The facility includes 148 acres covered by marked trails, and it raises rainbow and brown trout for release into local waters. The hatchery includes a gravity-fed springwater system of pools to breed and hatch the fish. The hatchery also is raising 20-thousand Atlantic Salmon for use in the Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon Restoration program. That program is trying to reintroduce Atlantic salmon into the Connecticut River Valley.
Silas Gray: This old mill stream produces big trout
My wife Karen and I were winding along Missouri highway 5 east of Springfield, being careful not to miss our turn. Silas Gray: This old mill stream produces big trout The Joplin Globe By Silas Gray Globe columnist My wife Karen and I were winding along Missouri highway 5 east of Springfield, being careful not to miss our turn. We were returning from a trip to Nashville and found ourselves with an extra day and nothing planned. With the town of Rockbridge only a few miles out of the way, we decided to spend some time catching big rainbow trout. This was the second time we'd made the trip to Rockbridge but the first time we'd made it together. Karen and I were introduced to the Rainbow Trout and Game Ranch while attending Dave and Emily Whitlock's fly fishing school.
Flyfishing gets its hooks into the girl about town
To be honest, I'd class myself as more of a socialising and shopping girl than one who messes about on the river. But this was the Four Seasons, the hotel brand that's a byword for stylish luxury, and if it was pitching fishing as the latest activity for the girl about town, maybe it was time I swapped my wedges for waders. This was going to be deluxe fishing: fishing where you don't have to touch the fish, fishing with champagne and sandwiches back at the hotel. Basically, it's having a laugh, standing in the sunshine at a pond in the country and then having a spa treatment. My previous experience with the rod was hardly a success. When I was a child my father took my younger sister and me fishing at Sandy Balls holiday park in the New Forest. We didn't catch anything, so dad had the cunning idea of buying some fish fingers from the site shop and putting them in our nets for mum to cook back at the caravan.
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