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FROM: [removed]@bellsouth.net
REC'D: 12/20/00, 12:43 PM

I'm forwarding a question that has been forwarded three or four times in search of an answer here in Louisiana. I'm hoping someone on this list recognizes the book. Reply to me and I'll pass the responses on to the correct person.

TIA,
Vicki Nesting

-----Original Message-----

Help! We cannot identify a book that a patron remembers reading in the early 1960's when he was in junior high. It is a story of a boy who spends his summer trying to catch a particular catfish. That is the only info the patron could give us. Any ideas? There is a little niggle in the back of my head that there is such a book, but I can't remember anything specific about it. Ahhh, these senior moments!
If this rings a bell with anyone, we would really appreciate your help.
Happy holidays to you all!
Katherine Brown, Director
Lincoln Parish Library

FROM: [removed]@edmail.com
REC'D: 12/20/00, 3:10 PM

This can't be the same book, since it was published in 1985, but it might be one your patron would enjoy -- Dayton Hyde's "The Major, the Poacher, and the Wonderful One-Trout River" -- about a young boy who tries to catch the record-sized trout his neighbor, the Major, is raising in his private trout stream.

Kathy Shannon
Thornwood H.S.
South Holland, IL

FROM: Susan Creed <[removed]@spokanelibrary.org>
REC'D: 12/20/00, 3:56 PM

I can't believe that you would mention this book--I was thinking of it
myself. I thought it was such a good book but I never knew of another
person who had read it. And I don't even particularly like books about
either sports or the outdoors. But it's truly a great little character
study.


At 01:03 PM 12/20/00 -0800, you wrote:
>This can't be the same book, since it was published in 1985, but it might
be one your patron would enjoy -- Dayton Hyde's "The Major, the Poacher,
and the Wonderful One-Trout River" -- about a young boy who tries to catch
the record-sized trout his neighb
>or, the Major, is raising in his private trout stream.
>
>Kathy Shannon
>Thornwood H.S.
>South Holland, IL
>
>
>
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Susan Creed
Youth Services Librarian,
Shadle Library
Spokane Public Library
2111 W. Wellesley
Spokane, WA 99205
[removed]@spokanelibrary.org

FROM: Christine Perkins <[removed]@jcls.org>
REC'D: 12/22/00, 1:32 PM

Here's a catfish-hunt book for you:

Pat Cunningham DeVoto's _My Last Days as Roy Rogers: a Novel_ features a
10-year-old tomboy named
Tab who's out to catch the granddaddy of all catfish in Bainbridge, Alabama
in the 1950s.

It's not the entire story but some great scenes have her doing battle with
the fish.

--Christine

_____________________________
Christine Perkins | [removed]@jcls.org
Young Adult / Reference Librarian
Jackson County Library Services
413 West Main Street
Medford, Oregon 97501
(541) 774-6412

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