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

Also 1961 Lake Genesareth northern pike catch

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

TypeEvent
WithinLake Geneserath · Beaver Island
ErasModern era

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

  1. 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.
    beaver_beacon · 1961-08_Beaver-Beacon