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Roy Goodland with String of Trout

Date: 05 01 1933
Description: Roy "Chubby" Goodland with a string of trout, caught near Ridgeway. He is wearing waders, has a creel hanging over his shoulder, and is standing in front o...
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Karl Smith with Muskellunge

Date: 06 09 1931
Description: Dr. Karl Smith is standing near his house at 1 N. Prospect Avenue. He is holding one end of a pole that is resting on a fence and displaying four muskellun...
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Moses Pauquette Displays Fish

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Description: Moses Pauquette shows off his catch of fish with his fishing creel at his tavern on Water Street. He stands before the bar, leaning on his left arm. His ca...
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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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Ice Fisherman with Large Fish

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Description: Fisherman standing on frozen Lake Superior holding a lake trout, leaning on snowshoes.
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Fisherman with Fish

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Description: A fisherman sitting in a boat is holding a cigar and posing with lake trout.
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Fisherman with Northern Pike

Date: 06 1952
Description: Fisherman John Chingo displaying two Northern Pike he caught in Chequamagon Bay. Photograph probably taken in Hec's Bar on East Main Street in Ashland.
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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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Pickerel Billy with a Display of Pickerels

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Description: William Dunn, known as Pickerel Billy, standing behind a display of twelve pickerels. Pickerel Billy supplied pickerels from Lake Mendota to downtown hotel...
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Portrait of Man Holding Fish

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Description: A studio portrait of a sitting man, possibly Earl Davis, holding a trout in front of a painted backdrop. He is wearing a hat, jacket, and long waders folde...
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Elderly Man Posing with Fish

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Description: A studio portrait of an elderly man seated with a pipe in his mouth holding a large fish (probably a Muskellunge or Northern Pike) in front of a painted ba...
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Sports Fisherman Leroy M. Kreisler with His Prize Catch

Date: 09 12 1949
Description: Sports fisherman Leroy M. Kreisler, Monona, holding the thirty-eight pound sturgeon he caught in the Wisconsin River near Okee. The fish measured thirty-fi...
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Portrait of Seated Man Holding a Trout

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a European American man posed sitting sideways in a chair. He is holding a large trout by the mouth with ...
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Woman Holding Trout and Fly-Fishing Rod

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Description: A woman wearing waders and a hat holds up a trout in her right hand and a fly-fishing rod in her left hand. Attached to her hat are fly-fishing flies, and ...
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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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Cormican's on Clam Lake

Date: 1938
Description: Standing outside of a cabin at Cormican's on Clam Lake is a man holding up a large fish and a girl in a bathing suit and cap holding a paddle.
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Two Men Holding Two Large Fish

Date: 1937
Description: Two men wearing winter hats and coats holding up two large northern pike.
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Woman Holding Fish at Nature Lovers Paradise

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Description: View of a woman wearing a bathing suit and hat holding up a heavy line full of fish caught at Nature Lovers Paradise resort on Jackson Lake.

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Young Aldo Leopold

Date: 1899
Description: A young Aldo Leopold posing proudly with his bamboo fishing pole, stringer of perch and a dog. The family was on vacation in the Cheneaux Islands, near Mac...
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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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