Show Doubts fish sto story ry Dear Sir I have before me a cutting from your issue of 30 January featuring the Record Brown Drown Trout taken in Flaming Gorge on 25 January Well you may have to sack your angling editor In your picture the fish looks to me much more like a Rainbow than thana a Brown Drown trout trout and and in January I should have thought that Brown trout at least were out of season I I think he is wrong too about the World Record Brown trout being the 39 caught in Scotland in 1866 for the Guinness Book of Records mentions a trout of Ibs lbs caught in Lake Athabasca Saskatchewan in August 1961 However if you would care to send me a print of the Flaming Gorge monster I think one of our British sporting journals would be interested in reproducing it together with the information in your article The cutting was sent to me with a letter from my uncle Keith Smith two days before he died on February 17 at the age of 96 very 96 very very likely the last letter he wrote In the twenties as a aboy aboy aboy boy I used to fish fish wi with th him inthe Inthe in inthe the Uintah Mountains where he ranched in the area long before the Flaming Gorge Dam was built In his letter he invited me meto meto meto to visit him again and try to emulate Charles Keeper The Th latter's Tatters whopper must have come west with my uncle about 1900 Yours sincerely FRANK H H. H ZIEGLER Haslemere Surrey England |