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Fishermen with Sturgeon

Date: 09 22 1949
Description: Two fishermen, Frank Gratiot (president of the Yahara Fisherman's Club) and his brother Charles, display a 4.5 foot long, 50-pound Sturgeon they caught nea...
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Cecelia Johnson

Date: 08 11 1948
Description: Mrs. Arthur O. (Cecelia) Johnson holding up a 38-1/2 inch northern pike, which she caught in Lake Mendota near Spring Harbor.
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Dead Fish in the Yahara River

Date: 09 20 1949
Description: Al Koppenhaver, a game warden for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, holding a bucket of dead fish that were removed from the Yahara River belo...
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Delbert and Mike Esser with Fish

Date: 05 05 1952
Description: One of the finest catches reported to date for the trout season is that pictured with its captors. Delbert Esser and his son, Mike, Cross Plains, landed t...
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Yahara Fishermen's Club Percharee

Date: 01 17 1954
Description: Portrait of Oscar Dary at a fish weighing station.
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Fish Catch from Lake Mendota

Date: 09 25 1957
Description: Caption reads: "The Lake Mendota fish population was reduced this week by this fine catch of crappies, white bass, and bluegills by Madison's expert fisher...

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