Trout fishing in Kansas? Yes, thanks to Missouri rainbows (Photo: File photo) HUTCHINSON, Kan – . (AP) — Standing on the frozen Dillon Nature Center pond watching more than 600 trout from Ava, Missouri, pour into the frigid waters, Richard Potter tells it from his stomach’s point of view. “You know the saying — a hog farmer doesn’t eat pork,” he said. Not that it is really a saying, but Potter admits you can give him catfish or bass, but he really doesn’t care for trout. “I mess with them all day long,” he said, a job he has had for more than five years. And by the end of a day of hauling trout across the lower Midwest, he doesn’t want to see one on his dinner plate. Kansas, not fortunate to be graced with mountain streams, isn’t a mecca for trout. Moreover, the summers are too hot to sustain this species of fish all year long. Yet there are plenty of opportunities to find them each winter in several of the state’s waters thanks to the work of Potter and others who ...