" Trout are raised in hatcheries and fed on ground-up horses. They are
not even allowed to have normal sexual relations. When a boy trout
starts sidling up to a girl trout, a couple of nature lovers grab them
and squeeze their milt and roe into a pan. The little trout are kept in
tanks until they're several inches long. then they're loaded into nice
natural tank truks and hauled out to a stream or pond and dumped in.
When they find there is no horse meat in the water, they go around
gnawing at beer bottles, mattress springs, tin cans, old galoshes, worn
out girdles, Silver Doctors, and the other natural articles found in
trout streams. As a matter of fact, the most popular trout in America -
the brown trout- isn't even natural to this continent. It was imported
from Europe in 1884. If it knew hot to get back there, it would
probably go."
ED ZERN
Ain't Natural Natural?
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Jimmy D. Moore - Scout Exec. BSA (Ret.), TOWA, TF&G Contributor, GRTU Past VP.
Past Pres. McGregor Rotary. Freelance Outdoor writer, humorist, half-assed Texan
and collector of classic bamboo fly rods and classic golf clubs
Author - "MOON HOLLER MISFITS Fishing & Hunting Club", ©
JIMMY D's Fly Fishing Website:
http://home.earthlink.net/~rayado/rayadoflyfishingflypatternstips/index.html
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"Being able to read trout streams is just as valuable to a fly fisherman as the
ability to read a defense is to an NFL Quarterback."
Jimmy D. Moore - © [2004]
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