JIM HOLSONBACK wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

 JH> But, speaking of sweet corn and trout - - you ever taken your
 JH> grandkids to one of those "trout farms" - where they have those
 JH> rainbow trout in a pond fed by water from an adjacent flowing
 JH> stream?

Nope.  I never got into fishing of any sort,  though I have some vague
recollection of seeing one of those places around here someplace...

 JH> The bait used there is single kernel canned corn (maize to Brits
 JH> and Aussies?)- - like "Niblits" Anyway, the fish are already all
 JH> "chummed up", and it is akin to shooting fish in a barrel - - you
 JH> can see the fish coming by, and kinda pick which fish you might
 JH> want to catch. That is not for me, but the kids had a great time.

Sounds like they would.

 JH> Our kids were like 3 and 6 at the time, but I did make one mistake
 JH> - - somehow our son caught a "big one" - - if I had been there, I
 JH> could have pulled the "bait" out of his path. And then, of course
 JH> the younger daughter also wanted to catch a "big one" also. So we
 JH> ended up with more of a panful fish-fry than we could eat that
 JH> evening, and had to bring some of it back to Florida with us.

 JH> Not that I mind eating delicious fresh or even fresh-frozen fish,
 JH> but seems like I'm the one allus gotta cook it because Sally's mom
 JH> was supposedly "Pennsylvania Dutch" and the only fish dish they
 JH> ever had when Sally was growing up was salmon croquettes or
 JH> something disgusting like that, maybe canned tuna fish salad.

Heh.

 JH> Anybody who has ever eaten real salmon or real tuna, not out of a
 JH> can, will be glad to tell you that the canned version is a pale
 JH> imitation of the real thing.  Full circle -  just like canned corn
 JH> versus real fresh sweet corn right off the ear.

I like fish,  and could eat it more often than we do...

Saw this stuff in a book once,  about how you could stock a pond,  and pull
several pounds of protein out of it each day,  if you wanted to.  There's
always been a certain attraction to that idea for me,  but first we gotta
get a place to do it.  Working on that.  

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