A look through the Brainerd Dispatch archives with Terry McCollough combing the microfilm for tidbits of history through the decades going back to 1923.
REPORT of the week must go to veteran member Keith Wernham. The 69-year-old showed his skills in how to play a carp on 4lbs mainline, a 2lbs hook-length, and size 18’s hook. He was enjoying his session at Appleton Reservoir fishing a waggler in six feet of water, feeding caster with red maggot on the hook and catching roach. His float shot under and he struck into what was obviously not a roach. A passing member who had stopped to watch dug his carp landing net out of his car. After about an hour and a half of playing the fish the 2lbs hook-length finally gave up the ghost and snapped just as a 20lb quality carp slid safely into the net.