PLANTING TROUT IN A NEW CENTURY
Wyatt Sugg sets the hook and reefs on his Ugly Stick, putting an impressive arc in the rod as he fights a fish in Home Run Pond, a little kids-only fishing hole in my hometown of Glasgow, Montana.
The rainbow trout he lands nudges the needle of his dad’s De-Liar fishing scale just past 1 pound, but to Wyatt, age 10, it’s the trophy fish of his young lifetime.
“Can we keep it, Dad?” he asks, by way of a demand. “Can we eat it? Dad! Can. We. Eat. It?”
Of course, his dad relents, and that night, he tells
