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...more be those of the Rockies and Far West. Since many of them will be closed till next month, Western fishermen were able to abide news of the 15-inchers in the East last week only by reflecting on the 15-lb. Kamloops lurking in Idaho's famed Pend Oreille Lake, and the wily rainbows in the streams of Colorado, Montana, Oregon and northern California...
...World's rainbow record: a 37-pounder caught at Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho...
...Which of these results it has will de pend upon what is going on now in the minds of church members and ministers. If they look upon this as another pious chore, another headquarters' brainstorm that has to be endured until it has blown over, then the second half of the 20th Century will see the decline of Protestantism in America. But if church men and women are sobered by the judgments that have fallen on our world and the worse catastrophes that threaten to descend, if they are moved by the promise of new light yet to break...
...Pend Oreille, as at many of the most-fished U.S. lakes and streams, man has improved upon nature. Some years ago, local sportsmen bought 100,000 fish eggs from Kootenay Lake in British Columbia to plant in the lake. The first batch died and the townspeople of Sandpoint, Idaho were skeptical. But in 1941 the sportsmen tried another 100,000; these hatched successfully, were planted in the lake as fingerlings. Pend Oreille's deep water and an abundance of blueback salmon to feed on seemed to be just what the Kamloops (local name for the over-sized rainbow trout...
This year the fame of Pend Oreille's Kamloops has attracted fishermen from hundreds of miles away. Some have gone home with empty creels, for the Kamloops are as temperamental biters as any trout. But by last week more than 200 fierce, square-tailed Kamloops, averaging 22 lbs., had been hauled out of Pend Oreille, including a 28-pounder (see cut) reeled in by a 13-year-old Idaho boy, Pat Kauffman...