I subscribe to Trout Unlimited’s magazine along with other environmental groups I belong to. I often gain much information I utilize for this column out of these NGO’s publications, and occasionally get surprised by research that I didn’t yet know about.
So, when I found out investigations in the Umbagog region on brook trout showed they move into bigger bodies of water to overwinter, and at considerable distances, I read further.
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