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Chuck:
Regional differences. To Canadians speckled trout=brook
trout. The speckled trout you're referring to are members of the croaker
family. We have their northern cousin up here, except we call them
weakfish.
As far as the rivers cleaning up around here they're not pristine,
but heck of a lot better than they were when I was a kid in the late 50's.
For years there wasn't an American Shad run on the Delaware River because there
was a pollution block that was basically a dead zone which prevented the fish
from migrating up. As the river has cleaned up, the shad are back, along
with Striped Bass and Herring. I live about a 2 minute walk from the
Schuylkill River, and when I was a kid my dad use to take me fishing. If
you used a bobber it would have a ring of coal tar around it by the time you
were finished, and you would have sticky gobs of it on your line. I don't
think the rivers around here ever caught fire, can't remember whether it was a
river in Chicago or one in Cleveland that caught fire, maybe they both
did.
There's still a lot of residual pollution, heavy metals, PCB's ,
etc., in river sediment, and we have the same type of advisories about eating
too much fish. I don't keep anything from the creeks or rivers around
here. I may keep a few crappie or bluegills if I'm lake fishing. I'm
more inclined to keep a salt water fish, like flounder, bluefish, croaker, or
weakfish. Still it's a constant battle to keep the streams at their
current level, and hope that they'll still be supporting fish years from
now.
Jerry C
"All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia."
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