Cold, swift water like this with a temperature ranging between fifty-five and sixty degrees is ideal for trout.
There is no longer any need to pity the “poor fish” because today there are fish with calling cards, fish doctors, surgeons, and dietitians, water-conditioned buses for fish, trout engineers and architects, fish elevators, modern rest rooms or pools for trout and home-coming days for wandering salmon.
There are a few of the piscatorial wonders which meet the opening of what will probably be the greatest angling season in history. Taxpayers are handing out tithe to trout whether they fish or don’t fish. Each year anglers pay about $100,000,000 for fishing licenses, rods and tackle. But that’s only part of the story.
Federal and state governments now maintain about 469 trout hatcheries or rearing stations in thirty-one states. Public money pays for these and the fish produced are planted in more than 91,000 fresh-water rivers, streams, ponds and lakes. Private trout-growing establishments have become a $50,000,000 industry.
Don't be surprised when you catch a trout with a "calling card," an identification tag attached at the hatchery.
Transferring trout from oxygen-charged tanks on truck to Maine lake after checking to see that tank and stream temperatures are the same.
Trapping fish to be used for breeding purposes.
Setting a "weir" to trap wild trout for later propagation at a state hatchery.
Selecting fish to be used for breeding purposes at a hatchery.
One of the 92,000 rivers and streams of the United States now being stocked with game fish from either federal or state hatcheries.
