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Filter: Creator Name of Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972
| Date: | 09 22 1949 |
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| Description: | Two fishermen, Frank Gratiot (president of the Yahara Fisherman's Club) and his brother Charles, display a 4.5 foot long, 50-pound Sturgeon they caught nea... |
| Date: | 07 12 1955 |
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| Description: | Lake Mendota skin-divers, Dick Charmley and Gary Davies, shown with fish that they have harpooned. Dick is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Charmley, 20 Paget ... |
| Date: | 03 14 1945 |
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| Description: | A dead spoonbill catfish ("Polydon Spathula") found by former Dane County Coroner Wayne Fisher in a pothole along the Wisconsin River at Prairie du Sac. T... |
| Date: | 06 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Hi-bred Muskie caught by Russ Peterson in Lake Wingra. The accompanying sign notes that it was 41 inches long with a girth of 19 inches and weighing 16 pou... |
| Date: | 04 28 1948 |
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| Description: | First grade students at Madison's Washington School used special activities to help build their vocabularies. In this photograph five students in Mrs. Hele... |
| Date: | 08 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Arthur O. (Cecelia) Johnson holding up a 38-1/2 inch northern pike, which she caught in Lake Mendota near Spring Harbor. |
| Date: | 04 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Two large bowls of guppies are the center of interest for ten-year-old Gill and seven-year-old Fritz in the living room of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred... |
| Date: | 07 13 1949 |
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| Description: | Dane County Park Commission meeting to hear complaints regarding dead fish in the Yahara River. Stoughton Mayor Truman Felland is standing at the right, te... |
| Date: | 08 03 1949 |
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| Description: | Carl A. "Cully" Kessenich (left), and Carl J. "Cully" Bach display seven walleyes caught in Lake Mendota. A third party to the fishing outing was Carl "Cul... |
| Date: | 09 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Sports fisherman Leroy M. Kreisler, Monona, holding the thirty-eight pound sturgeon he caught in the Wisconsin River near Okee. The fish measured thirty-fi... |
| Date: | 09 20 1949 |
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| Description: | Al Koppenhaver, a game warden for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, holding a bucket of dead fish that were removed from the Yahara River belo... |
| Date: | 09 20 1949 |
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| Description: | Two Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources employees removing dead fish from the Yahara River near the Johnson Street bridge. The fish were evidently ki... |
| Date: | 02 18 1952 |
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| Description: | Shelia O'Neil (left), a finalist in the University of Wisconsin Prom Queen contest, holds up a fish (yellow perch) as part of her "Fishing for Votes" campa... |
| Date: | 05 05 1952 |
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| Description: | One of the finest catches reported to date for the trout season is that pictured with its captors. Delbert Esser and his son, Mike, Cross Plains, landed t... |
| Date: | 01 17 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Oscar Dary at a fish weighing station. |
| Date: | 01 17 1954 |
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| Description: | Oscar Lochner (right) watching a committee member wearing a fur coat and hat weighing his catch. |
| Date: | 01 17 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Ken Christenson pulling a perch out of a hole cut in the ice of Lake Mendota during sub-zero weather. |
| Date: | 09 25 1957 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "The Lake Mendota fish population was reduced this week by this fine catch of crappies, white bass, and bluegills by Madison's expert fisher... |
| Date: | 07 08 1958 |
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| Description: | Six year old twins Billy and Martha Haygood lying in the grass next to a pond, looking down at trout fingerlings swimming at the fish hatchery located on F... |
| Date: | 08 22 1959 |
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| Description: | Gary McKenna holds a fishing rod and small fish in one hand and a flashlight in the other. The boy won the flashlight as a prize for being the first to cat... |
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