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More than 20,000 anglers are expected to turn out tomorrow morning for Opening Day of trout-fishing season, the largest sporting event in the state. They will be pursuing about 70,000 brown, rainbow, and brook trout stocked in scores of streams and ponds by the state’s Division of Fish and Wildlife.

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A handful of Opening Day anglers may also fish for native brook trout — actually a kind of char — that still occurs naturally in a few streams. Ancestors of the stocked rainbows came from the western states and provinces of Canada. The first brown trout came to America from Germany generations ago.

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For the first time, probably since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, anglers will be able to pursue trout in the town of West Warwick tomorrow. The Pawtuxet River, once the filthiest stream in the state, has two new trout-fishing spots, developed by the Department of Environmental Management and the Pawtuxet River Authority.

-- Journal staff writer Tom Meade

Read Tom Meade's full story on opening day.

Read Meade's Hotbytes blog.

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Link | April 11, 2008 9:55 AM
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