Giant Rainbow Trout from Mohawk: Fish Eight Pounds Ten Ounces in Weight Caught by Fisherman Near Rome, N. Y., Daily Racing Form, 1918-12-04

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GIANT RAINBOW TROUT FROM MOHAWK Fish Eight Pounds Ten Ounces in Weight Caught by Fisherman Near Rome N T Where were the big trout brook brown and lake taken this year The winners of Field and I Streams annual contest for largest fish tell the story storyThe The largest brook trout was caught by Grant t Phillips in I ost reek Wisconsin and weighed OVi pounds Its dimensions were Length 24H inches girth professorThe 13 inches and it was lured by a professor The iirize winning brown trout weighed 8 pounds 10 immts and was hooked by Harry Ackley in the Mohawk River near Koine N Y and was 20 i inches in length and 1C incites in girth A home made bucktail fly was the lure used Mr Ackley on the sanie fly in the same river caught another r brown trout weighing pounds 10 ounces ouncesThe The prizewinning lake trout weighed 38 pounds 3 and was raptured In Luke of the Woods Kenhiore Ontario Canada and was 42 inches in length and 27 inches in girth Hendries snooii was the lure used usedWheeler Wheeler Dam Pool Little Magalloway Me yielded to Iticliiini Kastnian a brook trout of 4 I pound 14 ounces the lure being a Jack Scott fly A No 8 Parmacheene Belie lured from the Bedell 1 Park stream a brook trout of 4 pounds 9 ounces i for William Ellsworth EllsworthJacob Jacob Wortheim who holds the record for the largest tuna of the Jersey coast on a cow dung j fly caught in Wiineta Lake Livingston Manor N Y brook trout of 314 l ounds oundsAn An S pound trout was taken by Percv Warwick from West Mill pond Gloversvilie N Y on a i Brown Iluckley fly flyFrank Frank Lydcll In the east branch of the Ausabie j River Adirondacks landed a brown trout weighing 7 pounds 3 ounces on a McGinty fly flyOn On a Skinner kidney snoon No 2 R Jackson Hop ¬ per in a lake in thejirtserve of LacSuceries Club ChnplWiu La Minerva Quebec Canada lured a lake j trout weighing 2iili iwiunds iwiundsWilliam William B Beach on an old spoon in Green Lake in the Lake Caiighnawana Fishing and Hunting Preserve netted a lake trout 23 pounds poundsOn On a homemade wabbler in Rainy River On ¬ tario C Gray brought In a lake trout of 20 pounds poundsOf Of five nrize awarded for the largest brook trout t and eight for heaviest brown trout a different fly f lured each fish Different spinners or snoons were e used silso for the taking of the eight prize winning lake trout


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