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Around effete Eastern streams, trout that size are merely measured, not weighed, and an 18 or 19-incher like the General's, if referred to at all, is called "a nice fish...
...Eisenhower was acting more & more like a presidential candidate. After two days of fishing in Wisconsin's Brule River, he had his picture taken with the biggest fish he had ever caught-a 5½-lb. trout. At the Minnesota State Fair in St. Paul, he was snapped taking a folksy bite into a prizewinning apple...
...fishing there until two years ago. Then a local meat-market owner got the strike of his life: his reel screamed and he thought his line would snap. From Pend Oreille's cool water, after a few minutes of battle, he pulled a giant 31-lb. Kamloops trout...
...skeptical. But in 1941 the sportsmen tried another 100,000; these hatched successfully, were planted in the lake as fingerlings. Pend Oreille's deep water and an abundance of blueback salmon to feed on seemed to be just what the Kamloops (local name for the over-sized rainbow trout) needed. Some grew 15 lbs. in one year...
This year the fame of Pend Oreille's Kamloops has attracted fishermen from hundreds of miles away. Some have gone home with empty creels, for the Kamloops are as temperamental biters as any trout. But by last week more than 200 fierce, square-tailed Kamloops, averaging 22 lbs., had been hauled out of Pend Oreille, including a 28-pounder (see cut) reeled in by a 13-year-old Idaho boy, Pat Kauffman...