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Sid on Lake Michigan with a Trout

Date: 05 1973
Description: Sid Boyum holds a catch while out on Lake Michigan aboard a chartered fishing boat with Bay Charter Service out of Sturgeon Bay.
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season - The Reverse

Date: 1979
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a man dressed in fishing gear suspended above the fireplace in a living room from a nail in the wall. Below the man is a...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season - Fish Tales

Date: 1987
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing titled, "Fish Tales (The Truth is Irrelevant, A Lie Well Told Lives Forever)." Sid adds the following words to describe the...
Photograph

Steve Hopkins and Roger Debenham Posing with Trout

Date: 05 1973
Description: Steve Hopkins and Roger Debenham posing in Sturgeon Bay with seven trout they caught on Lake Michigan hanging from pegs under a sign that reads, "Bay Chart...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1964
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a view from a riverbank of a fly fisherman in hip waders, who is standing in a stream while hooking a bass. The fish is ...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season - Memories of Fishing Seasons

Date: 1967
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of John Anderson and Earle Robert (Rob) Metcalf hunting in the dark for nightcrawlers for fishing. John is standing and ill...
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Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1969
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a cricket or grasshopper serenading a large trout swimming underwater. The insect is playing a violin, while standing on...
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Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1970
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a view across water towards a fisherman wearing waders and holding his spinning rod and creel is crouching on his hands...
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Opening Day Fishing Season - Fishing Fever

Date: 1971
Description: Elaborate pen-and-ink drawing of two fisherman at night sitting in a small motorboat (named PAM) on a lake. Large trout are looming over their heads with a...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1972
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a view from across a stream towards a cigar-smoking fisherman (probably Sid Boyum) on the opposite side of the bank. He ...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1980
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a large trout surrounded by a variety of insects, a fishing reel, and a fishing lure. This drawing appeared in the Wi...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1981
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing. This drawing appeared in the Capitol Times on April 21, 1981 with Sid's caption: "a sportswriter with an automatic ...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1982
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing. This drawing appeared in the Capitol Times on April 30, 1982 with the caption: "The opening of the state fishing se...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1985
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that appeared in the Capitol Times May 3, 1985 with Sid's caption: "Charlie Lunker Bass is down at the rustic barber...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1976
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing that appeared in the Wisconsin State Journal on May 1, 1976 with Sid's caption: "The Atwood-Ave Clean Fresh Water An...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1973
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a man sitting at a table (inscribed PAM) and playing cards with a salmon and a muskelunge (muskie). The muskelunge appea...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1984
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a large muskelunge (muskie), badge number 315 and clad in cowboy boots with spurs, that takes control with his six-shoot...
Drawing

Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1974
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a fisherman in waders, standing in ankle deep water and bending over with one hand in the water. He is looking towards h...
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Opening Day Fishing Season

Date: 1968
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing titled, "Today and Tomorrow — The Fisherman's Myth Never Flounders," that appeared in the Wisconsin State Journal on...
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Opening Day Fishing Season - Fish Tips

Date: 1963
Description: Imaginative pen-and-ink drawing of a fisherman embracing a trophy Muskelunge (Muskie), while holding his fishing rod. A sign near the fishing rod reads: "F...

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