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Herb Lees’s steelhead catch in Lake Geneserath (1972)

Also 1972 Lake Geneserath steelhead catch

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

TypeEvent
WithinLake Geneserath
ErasModern era

Summary

Herb Lees Sr. caught a 6 lb. 13 oz. steelhead in Lake Geneserath during the period covered by the October–November 1972 Beaver Beacon. The report says heavy rain kept Cables Creek open between Lake Michigan and the inland lake.

Evidence and limits

The source gives no exact catch date, photograph, measurement method, or independent fishery record. Its creek-and-lake route is preserved as the newspaper’s explanation, not as a hydrological reconstruction.

See also

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, October–November 1972, “Game News.”
    Reports that Herb Lees Sr. of Perry, Michigan caught a 6 lb. 13 oz. steelhead in Lake Geneserath a few weeks before publication and attributes the access to a wet year keeping Cables Creek open; it does not provide an exact catch date or independent fishery record.
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