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Show SH Businessman Hooks Record 10 Lb. Native Trout on Deer Cr. 7-Inch Girth ' Size of the fish: 28 inches , Ions: .seven inches through the ' girth. Weight before cleaning: ten pounds, twelve ounces. After Aft-er cleaning: seven pounds, 14 ounces. When they cleaned the fish they found a seven inch perch in its belly. The Linnells live, at 1549 Westminster Ave. Mr. and Mrs. Hyler reside at 1560 Garfield Ave. H. Scott ILinnell, prominent Sugar House businessman and sportsman made the record books Friday when he hooked a ten pound, twelve ounce whopping native trout on a fly rod at Deer Creek. Mr. Linnell's catch has been officially labeled as the biggest native trout iever recorded caught in the reservoir. Immediately Im-mediately following the catch Mr. Linnell took the fish to the Midway fish hatchery where Dave Wright weighed it 'in. On Display at Pehrson's Fish will be on display Friday Fri-day and Saturday at Pehrson Hardware Co. in Sugar House. For the first (three days of the week, the giant trout was shown at Hoffman Hardware Co. in Salt Lake. Friday evening Mr. Linnell, Mr. Bill Hyler and their wives got on the reservoir about 6:45 p.m. After a couple of hours of fairly sucessful fishing, Mr. Linnell, fishing with a four pound tippett and (using a No. 4 fly, felt an extra healthy bite on his line. He knew he had something big when the trout rolled over a couple )of times on the surface. But he didn't know it was that big! Fifty minutes later, with thanks to Bill Hyler's deft handling han-dling of the net, Mr. Linnell hoisted the big native into the boat. Thanks also go to a couple of men who came over in another an-other boat to offer the assistance of their much-desired flashlights. flash-lights. "Otherwise," Mr. Linnell says, "we might not have landed it." The party was about a block out from Abner's Camp when the big trout was hooked. Hatchery Manager Wright said that the trout was "one of the "most beautiful natives" he'd ever seen. |