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Trout Streams
Stocked For
Season Opening
Trout fishing enthusiasts can look forward to a banner year, according to Game Com-, mission Fish Division Chief Bob Martin. Production from state hatcheries is up 10% and 450.000 trout are scheduled for stocking in the streams of 40 Virginia counties prior to the opening of the 1964 trout season at noon April 4. Additional stockings totalling 275.000 are planned for May and June to bolster heavily fished streams. The daily creel limit will be 8 trout as in past years.
Ten percent of the fish to be stocked before the season opening and during the 5-day closure in May will be twoyear-old, and surplus brood fish averaging 12**-18*. Over half of the fish will be rainbows, about one-third will be brooks, and the remainder will be browns.
Those streams in this area
jwhich are to stocked prior to opening day are:
. In Rappahannock: Piney Branch, Rush River, and Thornton River North Fork.
Warren County: Gooney Run and in Madison County, Garth Run, Hughes River ( includes Rappahannock County) Robinson River, Rose River and and Rapidan River.
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