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...average factory worker with three dependents was around $70 a week. Not since the first delirious, mistaken weeks after V-J day had there been so much expectancy-with caution, this time-for peace. The fishing was good too. In the gulf, off the coast of Louisiana, speckled trout were swarming in the bays and bayous, and tarpon appeared a full month earlier than usual. Said Bill Tugman, editor of the weekly Reedsport (Ore.) Port Umpqua Courier: "The salmon are running and the trout and striped bass, and they even say the shad feel like taking a fly this year...
Natural Barrier. Lake trout, for many years the richest catch of Canadian and U.S. fisheries in the Great Lakes, have no such defense against the Dracula-like lamprey. The bloodthirsty parasite, usually about 18 inches long, clamps its suction snout onto a fish, drills a hole through the scales with its tongue and multiple rows of sharp teeth, and clings tenaciously, draining the host's body juices until it is satiated, or the fish dies...
...begun to thrive in Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and, more recently, in Lake Superior. Multiplying enormously, with each female averaging 61,500 eggs, and feeding greedily, with each maturing lamprey devouring up to 40 pounds of fish, they have already wiped out the $5,000,000-a-year lake-trout fisheries at Lakes Huron and Michigan, and are now threatening those in Lake Superior...
Cooney's golf was good enough to take Bud Alan of Amherst, one up, and Bailey swamped his Lord Jeff opponent, 7 and 6. Ornsteen defeated Trout...
Jerry's system, born of innate virtuosity and years of practice: he flicks a fly behind a swimming trout, lets it settle, then pulls it forward until it is out in front of the feeding fish. Once he has the trout's attention, Jerry quickly snakes his fly away at a 45° angle and gives it a few artful twitches as if it were trying to escape. These tactics never seem to fail. Explains Jerry: "Hatchery trout are stupid...