Name: Dick Hough catches 42-inch northern pike in Lake Genesareth, 1961
Start: 1961-08
End: 1961-08
Location: Lake Geneserath

Dick Hough catches 42-inch northern pike in Lake Genesareth, 1961

Also 1961 Lake Genesareth northern pike catch

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Locator map: Lake Geneserath highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago

Took place at Lake GeneserathLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.

TypeEvent

Date1961-08

WithinLake Geneserath · Beaver Island

ErasModern era

Event

Date: 1961-08
Kind: Sports
Where: Lake Geneserath
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: fishingenvironmentcommunity
Within: Lake Geneserath · Beaver Island

Summary

Dick Hough was reported to have caught a 42-inch northern pike weighing 16½ pounds in Lake Genesareth in summer 1961.

Evidence and limits

This is a newspaper fishing report, not an independently verified catch record.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, August 1961, “Sportsmen’s News.”
Reports Dick Hough of Kalamazoo catching a 42-inch northern pike weighing 16½ pounds while trolling Lake Genesareth. The newspaper account supplies no catch record, photograph, or independent measurement.
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Beaver Beacon, August 1961, held issue PDF, source scan.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Dick Hough catches 42-inch northern pike in Lake Genesareth, 1961”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/dick-hough-northern-pike-catch-1961/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 1961, “Sportsmen’s News.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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