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By FRANKLIN SCHMIDT Rappahannock Newt Sports Writer Rappahannock County used to 'ta number of stocked streams but nore. When asked about fishing in Rap>a an nock, Jim Bankston, game wartold Rappahannock News that lie abuse, creating many cornlints, caused the Commonwealth to t p stocking the public waterways. w, says Bankston, there are ho t earns stocked by the State. The only to fish is by written permission m a private pond owner, or stream, Johnson Trout Farm in Old Hollow, il^, there aren’t very many fish in t rivers, he states, the North Fork of Thornton, which runs through nandoah National Park has some t^ry good native trout, according to iton, and the Hughes offers some mouth bass, chain pickerel and is and ends”. The biggest problems, says >ankston, with people who fish their .n ponds, is that they really aren’t ware of proper maintenance proceures. They should, for one, be more rone to let more people who are reponsible, fish their ponds. The ecological balance is disrupted too few fish, too many of the wrong ;ind or the wrong size fish are taken, or example, most people, says tankston, believe that it is better to Jull the bigger fish. Larger fish, particularly bass, are prolific breeders. The larger bass keep
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