Rainbows, "Plasticos" and Halverson's "Synthetic Fish"

By
Marshall Cutchin
 on July 25, 2010 6:40 AM |

Recently retired Carlton College president Rob Oden writes about rainbow hatcheries, the liberal arts, and tenuous connections to the wild. "When Spanish anglers happen to catch a stocked rainbow trout, they know what to call them. Mimicking the most recognizable line in cinema's 'The Graduate,' fly-fishermen in Spain call rainbows 'plasticos.'" In the Toledo Blade.

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