Trout farming
Sir,—Trout farming can be of advantage to the dry-fly man, as my experience in North Devon proved. An acquaintance of mine ran a trout farm; its tanks were built into the ground a few feet above a good brown trout stream. The largest tank was nearest the stream. The fish in this tank he treated to ants eggs by whistling, as though whistling a dog, and then throwing a few to them as they popped up to receive their reward. I have never forgotten this because soon afterwards a flood washed out this tank and all its fish into the stream just below. What game we fishermen had the next day in that stream. Whistle, trout, cast, • take, play, land, until the bag was full. Where can you do that in this country?—Yours, etc., PAT BRETHERTON. February 20, 1976.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34085, 24 February 1976, Page 14
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