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Description
1 image. Sixteen pounds trout, 11 June 1951. Caught by Clyde Fitzgerald. Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Pacific Press Phtos. Date: 1951-06-11. Reporter: Gaze. Assignment: Record trout catch. Only negative enclosed: Clyde Fitzgerald, (city sanitation inspector, Santa Monica) with 16 pound, 6 1/2 ounces Lochleven (German Brown) trout which he caught trolling at Crowley Lake over weekend (Saturday). It is 1951 record so far and just 3 pounds lighter than all-time Crowley record, he sez.. It took 1 hour, 20 minutes to bring to net, towed lite boat with outboard motor in big circle. Fitzgerald's fishing partner: Maurice King, Santa Monica City engineer, who caught 6 trout. Fitzgerald caught 2 others".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : negative, b&w 13 x 10 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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