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...that there is "one nice thing about fishing-you can always put 'em back." He is not the kind of angler who takes the limit catch. But his splashingly successful four-month-old syndicated newspaper feature is helping fishermen in 35 states and three Canadian provinces hook more trout, bass and muskies than ever before...
Fisherman-Naturalist Knight, 56, a retired banker, lives in central Pennsylvania, and he knows a lot about fishing even in places he has never fished. When not busy casting in his favorite trout stream (which he calls "the River X" to keep the crowds away), Knight writes books on wild life and prepares what he calls "solunar tables." By last week the Des Moines Register & Tribune Syndicate had sold Knight's tables and his columns to almost 100 newspapers, making them the most widely read fish talk since Izaak Walton, and much more practical...
...Stout Trout. In Lewiston, Idaho, 15-year-old John Olson got a very dirty look from a steelhead trout while wading in the river, explained to the game warden that the only thing he could do was stone the 13-lb., 36-in. fish to death in self-defense...
...Rapids. As lampreys multiply, other fish grow proportionately scarce. First victims are the lake trout, whose small, thin scales cannot resist the lamprey's kiss. In Lake Huron, where lampreys do the most damage, the trout catch last year fell to 41,000 Ibs. (It was 1,750,000 Ibs. in 1939.) Many trout caught showed lamprey scars. When trout get scarce, the lampreys go after rough-scaled perch or even armored sturgeon...
Land of Plenty. The hills themselves had nearly everything Gil wanted-pickerel and bass and trout, possums and red deer, yarbs for medicine. Gil only needed a few dollars now & then for tobacco, salt, flour. In the old days, it was easy to make a few dollars. All he had to do was cut a little hard maple, sell it as fuel for the brick kilns at Haverstraw. Even the locomotives on the Erie Railroad burned wood for a long time. But all that gave...