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Dave Bracy recalls:  During the 1974 derby, I was fishing with my family in our usual spot, right across from the shelter house. Halfway through the derby I suddenly got a hit on my daredevil lure.

I reeled the fish in to see that it was a trout. As my dad helped me net the trout and get it on the bank, we noticed it had a tag on its mouth. I asked dad what number it was and I thought he was going to have a heart attack right then and there.

 It was tag number one! Dad was really nervous as we walked over to the shelter house to turn it in. From then on I had my high school nickname of "Big Arb," after the number one fish named for Arden Baker.

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