HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1998-04-29, Page 7TME HURON EXPOSITOR
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rout season starter in sunshine
BY.
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BY GREGOR CAMPBELL
Expositor Staff '
Thc temperature was a. tad
nippy early Saturday morn-
ing hut otherwise conditions
wete ideal for the annual
derby that signals the start of
fishing season in Scaforth.
- Unless, of course, you were
a trout!
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The. park was packed with
• kids and parents shortly after
7 a.m., under sunny skies.
Earlict last week organizers;
stocked. the creek with- 300
trout, at about $2 a pop, from
a Bclgrave-area fish, harm:
Slightly"more than 200 of
these had heen caughi by the
end of'derby day. - .
But the biggest trout -Of the .
lot was wild; one -of about an
cs'timated half dozen that
made it up the Bayfield River
from Lake Huron to the local
park hefore,water levels fell.
This monster was hooked• -
by Meagan O'Dell -
'Seaforth. It measured 24.
-inches. • - -
Avid outdoorsntiai Lara.
tolmage, one' of the otgami-' '
ers of the annual trout dubs. -
said this year's event turned
out to he ane of the hest yet
with -the hest weather. and thu
most fish caught.
He- says the trout derby has
,keen going on here in
Scaforth al. least two decades, ,
on the first day of the official -
season in Ontario.
' Dave Hedley. who runs the
fish' firm that provided the
fun. says the 300 fish avcr-
aged between six' -and eight
pounds.
He says the mild weather
last winter was good for fish.
farming in the area.
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