62 NEBRASKAland • OCTOBER 2017
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This is a picture (circa 1954) of
me and my brother, Larry Hupka,
right, fishing at what we called
Medicine Lake but is now Harry
Strunk Lake. We spent many days
fishing lakes, farm ponds and
rivers around Nebraska with our
father, Glen Hupka, who was an
avid fisherman, and I am happy
to say Larry and I are fishing
partners to this day. Our dad
passed away several years ago,
and we think of him every time we
wet a fishing line.
– Marlin Hupka, Lincoln,
Nebraska
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My father, Olof Klanderud, and Henry Leader caught
four spoonbill, one carp and a sturgeon weighing 42
pounds. All were caught in an afternoon below the dam at
Gavins Point, November 1959. I was in the Navy at that
time but have had many great fishing and hunt trips in
Cedar County.
– Larry Klanderud, Bellevue, Nebraska
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My dad, Dean Simonson, right, and my uncle, Duane, in
Worms, Nebraska, in the early- to mid-1960s. The pheasant
populations were so high that for a few years, of your four-bird bag
limit, one could be a hen. My dad has been deceased since 1967,
and my uncle lives in Buffalo, Wyoming, while I live five miles from
Worms.
– Ron Simonson, Palmer, Nebraska
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