Beaver Island fishing and turkey observations include a Lake Geneserath pike, 1965

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.

Event

Date: circa 1965-08
Kind: Sports
Where: Lake Geneserath
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: fishingenvironmenttourism
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The August 1965 Beaver Beacon reports continued bass fishing around Beaver Island’s out-islands, improving harbor bass and perch fishing, and sightings of large turkey broods. Trent Gildersma reportedly caught a 46½-inch, 21-pound northern pike in Lake Geneserath.

Evidence and limits

This is a local fishing and wildlife report, not a creel census, population survey, or independently verified catch record.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, August 1965, “Game News.”
Reports continued good bass fishing around the out-islands, rising harbor bass and perch fishing, sightings of turkey broods, and Trent Gildersma’s 46.5-inch, 21-pound northern pike from Lake Geneserath. It is a local observation, not a creel census, wildlife survey, or independently verified catch record.
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Beaver Beacon, August 1965, held issue PDF, source scan.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island fishing and turkey observations include a Lake Geneserath pike, 1965”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-fishing-turkey-and-pike-report-1965/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 1965, “Game News.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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