Brown Trout Rising

The New Year is a time to reflect. Get smashed and forget. And to consider the benefits of horrifying exercise to trim the post-Christmas fat. The good news is on the brink of 2013, we’re still here. And almost 130 years later so is Salmo Trutta, the badass import that outlived apocalyptic outcries from the early fishing masses. SI Vault, via this 1956 Sports Illustrated feature story, dissects brown trout ascension in America and the hostilities (and obsessions) that followed for a hard-to-catch fish that just didn’t taste quite right.

“As the eggs were carefully transferred to the clear, running water in the hatchery troughs, there was nothing to indicate that each egg was loaded with finned dynamite. When these brown trout eggs and other shipments from Germany and the British Isles were hatched and planted in American waters, the reaction was immediate, hostile and violent.”

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