Word: salmons
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...reason for the frenzy was the presence in the lake of a game fish whose natural home is in the coastal waters and streams of the Pacific. Coho salmon were being caught in fresh-water Lake Michigan by the thousands. And every strike was a battle. The silvery coho salmon are 2 ft. long, weigh 15 Ibs. and more. "They're all different," said Ron Jenkins of Battle Creek, Mich., who had caught three in his first half-hour. "Some will jump; some will go deep. They'll all fight." Said a farmer who had been trying...
...experiment has succeeded beyond the conservationists' highest hopes. Last year, when the first batch had matured, fishermen caught 33,000 cohos; this year the catch will approach 100,000. For the little puddle-bass fisherman, the advent of Pacific Coast salmon has brought a whole new world. Detroit's J. L. Hudson Co. estimates it will do $200,000 in new business this year selling salmon-fishing equipment. And in Manistee, Mich., where the cohos are running this week on their annual spawning run, the town's 16 hotels and motels are booked solid, and a city...
Frenzied as the present season is, next year promises to be even wilder. The-state of Michigan, encouraged by its success with cohos, stocked its streams with 800,000 Chinook, or king, salmon fingerlings last year. Next fall the Chinooks, which weigh up to 60 Ibs., will start running. Fishermen can hardly wait...
...whale. After that came a battle off Cape Finisterre that lasted several hours, reported Madrid's daily ABC, and when all the thrashing and splashing were over, Spain's Francisco Franco, 75, had landed himself a 48,000-lb. trophy. Franco's favorite finny prey is salmon, but this was far from his first whale. Over the years he has snagged more than 20 of the leviathans, and he has the pictures to prove it decorating the cabins of his boat...
...weather ought to be a basic precaution; yet the Coast Guard reports that an astonishing number of boaters pay it no heed. One day last fall, the forecast for Lake Michigan called for squalls and 40-m.p.h. winds. Nevertheless, hundreds of fishermen set out in search of coho salmon. When the storm hit, the Coast Guard did all the fishing, hauled 300 anglers and seven dead bodies from the water...