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Eldred Preserve: Trout, bass close to millions

By Ken Schultz
ESPNOutdoors.com Fishing editor

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

One July morning in the summer of 2002, I watched a boy catch a free-swimming trout with nothing but a net. The netted trout wasn't a wild specimen hugging the bottom of a swift-moving stream. A 14-inch rainbow, it was slow-cruising near the shoreline of a small, stocked pond at Eldred Preserve in Eldred, N.Y. Nevertheless, when the youngster snared it — after others had tried unsuccessfully — he caused a commotion. Some 90 boys and girls ages 7 to 14 converged on this pay-to-fish e ...

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