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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, March 1, 1993                   TAG: 9303020355
SECTION: MISCELLANEOUS                    PAGE: B-10   EDITION: METRO 
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20 "The trucks are running!" That's the word from Gary Martel, the biologist who heads the trout program for the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Since Feb. 16, trucks bearing a wiggly cargo of trout have been rolling from state hatcheries to streams and lakes in 30 counties. The trout season opens at 9 a.m., March 20.

Many of the streams have been fed fat by snow water, and the trout are in good supply and in good shape, said Martel. Now is the time to wind some new line onto your reels and sharpen your hooks. The Roanoke Times & World-News will have the full stocking schedule in its annual Trout Pages scheduled March 14.

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