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This Saturday, March 18, will mark the beginning of the trout season and the end of a tradition.
It will be the last “opening day,” at least for a while.
The Department of Game and Inland Fisheries has decided not to close the trout season, and thus there will be no more opening days.
In the past trout fishermen often stood “shoulder to shoulder” along stocked trout streams waiting for the start of the season.
According to the Game Department the decision to have a year-round trout season is a result of several years of research and discussion. Troflt anglers themselves participated, and surveys showed that 75 percent of persons purchasing trout licenses were in favor of not closing the season each year.
The continuous open season will allow the department not only to raise trout more efficiently, but to stock more of them at the best time for the fish and fishermen. Trout hatcheries will now be able to go on a continuous production cycle which will let them stock a larger number of fish over a longer period of time.
The department says the yearj-ound season is expected to have other benefits, including the opening of some streams. In the past, some
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