Author: John Clark | Herald correspondent

Six-year-old Waylon Zachmann was having fun at City Park but instead of feeding the ducks and turtles Saturday morning, the excited boy was catching rainbow trout at Copperas Cove’s annual Fishing in the Park.Dozens of area families took advantage of the mild temperatures and clear blue skies to line the banks of the duck pond and try their luck at catching a few fish. Excited shouts and words of encouragement — “Come, reel him in; let him in!” — heard all around, including from the Zachmann family: Gina Zachmann, also known as Grammy; Kurt Zachmann, better known as PaPa; Waylon’s…

COPPERAS COVE — Dozens of young anglers and their families came out on a beautiful Saturday morning to try their luck at the City Park duck pond at the annual Copperas Cove Park Fishing.Most of all the fish caught are rainbow trout stocked by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department as part of a program that TPWD sees releasing up to 40 million fish into about 100 public lakes, ponds and saltwater bays every year. According to TPWD, many of these fish come from the state’s three saltwater and five freshwater hatcheries.One of the program’s goals is to provide “catchable-size…