Last week the Bemidji, Minn., Fish Hatchery telephoned long distance to its officials to tell them that Old Silverspot, matriarch of wall-eye pike, was safe at the hatchery. She had been missing for two years. Hatchery men had thought she was dead of old age or had been a fisherman's prize 25-lb. catch. Fish officials hurried to Bemidji, found her swimming in a tub. They took her picture as Minnesota's mother of millions.
The fish first appeared in hatchery nets twelve years ago, a chunky, gold-gleaming adult of 12 lb. Hatchery men noticed...
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