Big Trout For Later Stream Stocking
Case-Mama Program
THURS. & FRI. AFTERNOON
GRAND
New Show
• Demonstrations
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Arthur S. Young
Kinzers, Pa.
SATURDAY ALL DAY
APRIL 20 - 21 - 22
• Big Machinery Display
Od J > 1
Miss Lancaster County will be present Saturday, April 22
Company, Inc.
OPENING Of Our
Room & Parts Center
Expert Looks At Fishing In
County As “Big Day” Dawns
As all Lancaster County an
glers know, the Pennsylvania
trout season officially opened
today at 5 a.m. Truly not many
states can boast the trout turn
out that the Keystone State
can, as wives, children, and a
horde of fishermen come out
to “wet a line”.
The experts call our trout
fishing “put - and - take” fishing
and I guess this is what it is,
since all the fish taken by Com
monwealth anglers are stock
trout.
Maybe this is important to
some people but let me tell you
a little secret .... I fished
hard and long for many a year
with flies in streams in this
county and counties up state
and the luck I had was mostly
bad. The first time I fished the
vvaters of Canada with flies, I
took moie fish than I dreamed
was possible .... those Land
of-the-Mounties trout wei en’t
stock trout and gosh, they were
easy to catch.
• Movies
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 15,1967 —
by John Hclter
Q
Sooo, what does that prove?
Maybe not a goshdarn thing ex
cept after that trout is in the
stream a couple of days he has
to be hungry before he’ll feed
. . , . and fiiend. it’s pretty
tough to catch him until he
bites.
Lancaster County received
19,500 trout for local sti earns.
We didn’t see any of the fish
stocked but we heard from a
pretty lehable soiuce that most
of the fish were “fair” in size.
Not quite up to the stockings
of last year when 14 and 15
mchers were fairly common.
Early fishermen will prob
ably do best in the Middle
Creek where 960 brook trout
were planted, or Seglock Run
where 440 brook were planted.
It's no secret that brookies
are a hungry breed and quick
to feed
The Hammer Cieek will be
a bit slow since the 2040 trout
planted there were browmes . .
. should we have a day as
nice as last Saturday and you
can bet your bottom dollar you
will take fish anywheie
These fellows and some oth
er interested sportsmen were
haid at woik sorting the fish
tor stocking later in the sea
son Bob Koch holds a 16-inch
er that should go a good two
or two and a half pounds
In Januaiy. the club stocked
500 legal trout in the upper
reaches of the Seglock in an
effort to “thin-out” the nursery
stock
About 1100 fish from 10 inch
es to a foot-and-a-ahalf will
probably be stocked in north
ern end streams throughout the
season. This is quite a boon to
the state stocking program and
an extra special dividend for
local anglers
Where am I going to fish
this yeai? Well, t v t doctor and
I had a little talk about that
and he says I’m not' Oh, I’ll
be out there somewhere . . .
less a fishing rod but along
about the time the sun gets up
nice and warm, you’ie liable to
see me pointing a camera at
you . . would you please
smile and hold up your catch'!
• Milk Production Off
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U.S. MARCH MILK
PRODUCTION DOWN
Milk production in the Unit
ed States during Maich is es
timated at 10 510 million
pounds, slightly below the 10,-
537 million pounds produced
last March and five percent be
low the 1961-65 aveiage for the
month Production was the low
est for March since 1955 Total
production of milk during the
January-March period this year
was 29,582 million pounds,
slightly above the comparable
1966 penod On a daily basis,
milk production increased three
percent from February to
March, compared with an in
crease of four percent between
these months last year March
output provided 171 pounds
per person daily, compared
with 173 pounds in March
1966.
Temperatures for the next
five days are expected to
average above the normal
range of 64-41 degrees.
Precipitation in the form
of showers may occur at the
beginning, and again at the
end, of the period. Accumu
lation may exceed M> -inch.
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