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FAN FAREBy Walt DitzenOudjdbohADon L. JohnsonEAU CLAIRE ROD AND GUN CLUB members will wind up one of their major projects of the year this weekend with the distribution of a record number of pheasants to swamps, swales, and fields throughout the county.About A.000 biq, hunky birds wid hr waiting for transportation at dawn Saturday, and it's hoped that the last of the big floek will be picked up for distribution at dawn Sunday.Eor those of you unfamiliar with the way the farm is operated, I’ll explain that the birds are not confined to the pens after they get a good growth of feathers. Thov swarm into the pens at dawn, on wing and afoot,rin Gunderson of Gilmanton was another first prize winner, and Don Mense of Menomonie had the top brown trout entry with a seven-pound, four-ounce beauty caught in the White Riv jer.OTHER WINNERS were |Earl Leckbaum, Rt. 5, Chippewa Falls, with a 30-pound, nine-jounee musky caught in Turtle jFlowage and G, Nelson, Chip-ipewa Falls, with a 30-pounder taken from the Chippewa Flow-age.Charles Otto. Eau Claire, got a second prize with a four-pound, five-ounce smallmouth caught in the Eau Claire River and Sam Larson, Eau Claire, placed third with a Tanners Lake specimen weighing three pounds, eight ounces.caught !n Wlssofa, and A.Russell. Chippewa Falls, third with a two-pound, it 1-2 Incher from the same lakp.C larence I,angel, Chippewa Falls, placed second with a two-pound, 15 1-2 Inch erapple was caught by Edward Nowak,Don Annis, South Milwaukee, placed second with a three-pound, two-ounce brook trout from Star Lake, and George Annis. Chippewa Falls, third with another from the same lake weighing one ounce less, although an inch longer.Harold S. Utphall of Eau Claire placed second In the rainbow- division with a six-pound, 14-ounce beauty taken from the Cranberry River.A seven-pound, three • ounce brown trout caught by Ray Mr-Ilquham of Chippewa Falls in Eighteen Mile Creek, near Colfax, ended up in second place, and a Willow River brown weighing six pounds four ounces and caught by Sam Popple of Burkhart, Wis., was third Chippewa Falls anglers lt;lt;vok second and third places In the walleye division — George Rtimmerfleld with a 10 pound, two-ounce fish tak en from Duncan Creek and Orris Boettcher with an eight pound, nine-ounce specimen from Beaver Dam. Warren Van Delist of Eau Claire took a second prize with his 19 - pound northern from Tninter Lake, and Harold Har j ris, Altoona, placed third with 15-pound. 11-ounce northern caught in the Mississippi.And incidentally, the freak” fish displayed at the fair is a quillhack — relative to the carp, suckers, and buffalo. ItFNFKTWO
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Eau Claire Leader
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Aug 04, 1956
Page 9
Full Page
Clipped by
Bernard W.
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