Beaching disease found in North Platte

Vaccination to begin Sunday

Please note: This was an April Fool's Day joke.

Va Pescado, communications director of the National Wildlife Service, has confirmed that Beaching Disease, poisson d’Avril, has been detected in brown trout samples taken from the North Platte River.

Beaching Disease causes trout to beach themselves rather than the typical whirling found in the closely-related Whirling Disease.

Fortunately, Pisces Incorporated, of Minnetonka, Minn., has developed a gel that, when rubbed on the gills of potentially infected fish, completely cures the disease.

“We are working closely with local Game and Fish agencies and plan to begin netting off sections of the North Platte beginning Sunday,” said Pescado.

The first section to be netted off will be the section around Veterans Island in Saratoga and Pescado invites anyone interested to come and aid in vaccinations.

“We will be supplying the vaccination gel and rubber gloves,” continued Pescado. “All we need is people.”

Pescado advised netting operations will continue through the first part of April and hopes “this will not interfere with the local fishing and floating season”.

Anyone interested in helping with the vaccination is asked to show up at the Veterans Island parking lot at noon on Sunday. Waders are recommended and any additional nets will be appreciated.

“It’s either do this now or start buying lots of little deck chairs.”

Pescado cautioned.

On page 1 of the April 1 edition of the Saratoga Sun, the Beaching disease story was wholly erroneous.

The disease itself, “poisson d’Avril” translates to “April Fool” in French. “Va Pescado” translates to “Go Fish” in Spanish.

The staff of the Saratoga Sun is completely unapologetic about this error.

 

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