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🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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This week, Cal talks about a not very big but very wise lake trout, why we need to demand better management for our public lands right now, and so much more.
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| 1:08.1 | A 62-year-old fish pulled from Lake Superior is thought to be the oldest ever lake trout caught in the Great Lakes. |
| 1:16.1 | The fish, which researchers dubbed Mary Catherine, was collected at Klondike Reef in autumn, |
| 1:22.1 | 2003 by researchers with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. |
| 1:26.7 | It's not a giant at just under |
| 1:28.3 | five pounds, but what it lacks in size, I'm sure it makes up for an experience. Lake trout live a |
| 1:34.6 | pretty long time for fish, with average lifespans measuring 25 to 30 years, but Mary Catherine |
| 1:40.6 | doubled the average and is believed to have hatched around the year in 1961. For the youngsters out there, that was the year JFK became president, |
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