By Bill Thompson
The trout season is in full swing now and if you haven’t wet a line yet, you are wasting time. I took a day off from the shop Tuesday and spent a delightful afternoon fishing one of our local trout ponds. To say that the fishing was good would be an understatement. The fishing was fabulous.
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