Trout Opener

In the East this year a mild winter yielding to early spring let State Fish & Game Commissions begin stocking trout streams last month a fortnight early. When anglers flocked for the opening of the season last week, they found hundreds of thousands of smart, gamy trout, rid of hatchery loginess, ready for sport. Some newsworthy openers:

P: In Pennsylvania day before the opening, Governor George H. Earle signed a bill to permit Sunday fishing, first time since 1794. That evening, the Governor repaired to Cumberland County, dropped in hook & worm shortly after midnight, departed an hour later with ten trout.

P: In New Jersey, Newark's big Radio Station WOR dispatched equipment to the Joe Jefferson Club near Ridgewood, sent over the air the sound of babbling brook, whirring reels, fresh-caught trout sizzling in the frying pan.

P: In Massachusetts, as a stunt to advertise New England sport, the New England Council hired a professional deep-sea diver to pad around the bottom of Calvin Coolidge Pond, telephone "fish locations to anglers on the bank. When Editor Horace G. Tapply of National Sportsman lost a nine-inch trout off his barbless hook, the diver marked the spot, came up with the played-out fish clutched in his big rubber glove.

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