"Wes" wrote in message
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"Ed Huntress" wrote:

Excellent! That's better than Clorox in a trout stream. d8-)

I haven't heard that one before.

Wes

If you'd lived in western Maryland in the '50s, you'd also know about
bush-bobbin', juggin' with a whole *case* of beer bottles, dippin', and a
few other tricks that would make the sporting hairs on your neck curl up.
d8-)

Here in NJ, the standard trout-fishing tool used throughout much of the
Appalachians -- a half-stick of dynamite -- was a little too loud,
considering the population density. So they developed Clorox fishing.

You block off the downstream end of a trout pool with a piece of hardware
cloth, walk up to the head of the pool, and pour in a gallon of Clorox. The
trout can't breathe with the chlorine in the water and they float belly-up
into the hardware cloth.

It was quite popular here with the poachers, until the late '50s.

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Ed Huntress