Word: trout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That night Ike settled into the South Dakota State Game Lodge where, in 1927, Calvin Coolidge outraged the nation's anglers by admitting that he was fishing for trout with worms. Redeeming his predecessor's conduct (which was denounced on the Senate floor by the late James A. Reed of Missouri), Ike offered the French Creek trout dry flies and a Colorado spinner. In a full day's fishing he caught a dozen trout. The biggest: a 15-incher weighing more than...
...headed for the nine-hole Centre Hills Country Club. At noon, the brothers went back to the house to grab up fishing tackle, then set off for an afternoon's fishing (dry fly) on a nearby private estate. In five hours, the happy President hooked and landed 20 trout (brown, rainbow, brook). He threw back all but the five biggest, which were duly photographed, cooked and eaten...
...rich storehouse of Americana at Fair Lane were the love letters of Ford to his wife, Clara, a paper boy's receipt for 45? that Ford paid him in 1894, a receipted bill for four pounds of trout (price 72?) delivered in 1906, the bill for the gasoline for his first car, letters from Presidents and crowned heads, and thousands of letters that Ford did not even bother to open-some containing thousands of dollars. There were the first rough sketches of cars and of assembly plants, hundreds of "jotbooks" into which Ford noted everything that interested...
...serious fresh-water fishermen-and no one can be more deadly serious-will not be concentrating on anything as trivial as catfish or smelt as the season rolls along. Their chief targets will be trout, bass (large-& smallmouthed), muskellunge, perch, chain pickerel and northern pike (see color page...
...best trout waters will once 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...