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Clyde Bell: Seining fish in lake along the IllinoisInterviewer: Then did you. . .
Clyde: Then when I got big enough I went on the lake seins with all the old-timers. Witt Rudolf, Johnny Schule(?), George Stevens, who they called "Scissortail", I don't know how we got that nickname but he went by it until the day he died, "Scissortail" Stevens. And then [ intelligible ] fished, and even in those days when the fish was so cheap, and the other guys working like they did, it wasn't unusual for us to make 25 or $50 a day in a big haul. And the biggest haul I ever made was a 125,000 pounds in Thompson Lake, right where the clubhouse is now. Transcription last modified 01/22/10 4:17:51 PM
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