Syracuse.com - Coming this week in The Post-Standard: Dog trained to sniff out illegal catches; opening day of trout fishing season

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Can you believe it? Opening day of trout fishing season is almost here.

Here's the offerings this week on the Outdoors page of The Post-Standard.

Friday:

Main piece: Profile on Nitro, one of the DEC's specially trained K9s which are trained to sniff out illegally shot or caught fish and game, in addition to spent shotgun and rifle shells in hunting accident investigations.

Plus.. the outdoors calendar; Catch of The Week

Sunday:

Two-page feature, a precede to the opening day of trout fishing season.

Main piece includes the three types of fish anglers will be trying to

catch: the big lake-run rainbows on the Finger Lakes tributaries, stocked trout from local fish hatcheries and wild trout. This story will include "the skinny" on catching all three.

Also: how to scout ahead of opening day with your computer by cruising around the DEC web site; news that two new access points on local trout streams -- one on Nine MIle Creek, and another on Onondaga Creek -- will be open for the first time this season, a summary of trout fishing- related videos on syracuse.com, and much more.

View the full article on The Syracuse Outdoors Blog