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David Baker, stream biologist for the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, holds two nice smallmouth bass collected from the South Fork of Licking River in Harrison County during population sampling.
By Lee McClellan
From Kentucky Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Resources
FRANKFORT, Ky. – If you are a river or stream angler, this past spring and summer has filled your belly with enough frustration to pull your hair out by the handful.
Mother Nature greeted every stream fishing trip you planned for the upcoming weekend by rudely parking a heavy thunderstorm in the headwaters of the intended stream two days before the trip. A torrent of glutinous, rust colored water followed the monsoon, looking like the stream flowed from the bottom of a hog pen. Instead of fun fishing, it became time to mow the yard instead.
The...