Name: Beaver Island spring fishing report, 1971
Start: 1971-06
End: 1971-06

Beaver Island spring fishing report, 1971

Also June 1971 Beaver Island fishing report

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

Locator map: Garden Island highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago

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

TypeEvent

Date1971-06

WithinBeaver Island

ErasModern era

Event

Date: 1971-06
Kind: Observation
Where: Garden Island · Hog Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: fishingrecreationenvironment
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The June 1971 Beaver Beacon reported strong early-season smallmouth bass and pike fishing around Garden and Hog Islands, along with large perch catches near Garden Island.

Evidence and limits

This is a community fishing report, not a creel census, fisheries survey, or complete catch record.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, June 1971, “Game News.”
Reports smallmouth bass and large pike around Garden and Hog Islands, plus Perry Gatliff’s catches of perch near Garden Island; it does not provide a catch register or fisheries survey.
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Beaver Beacon, June 1971, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held nine-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published fishing report.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island spring fishing report, 1971”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-spring-fishing-report-1971/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, June 1971, “Game News.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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