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The now-famous picture of part of the final day's catch of big rainbows at Lake Pend d'Oreille has appeared in metropolitan newspapers all over the nation and has already resulted in inquiries to the Chamber of Commerce from points as far distant as Toledo, but none had quite the poignancy of this letter from a Minneapolis man:

"There is a picture in our paper today of a record trout taken from Lake Pend d'Oreille in northern Idaho. This picture has had a very bad effect on me. I have visited the northwest but never fished before. I must fish that lake another year. Will you please tell me how it can be done.

In a letter to the Sandpoint News-Bulletin, John Grigsby, formerly in the public relations office at Farragut naval center, said the famous fish picture caught his eye when it appeared on the sports page of the Toledo Blade, where he is again employed after his release from the navy.

"I was sitting here at work," he wrote, "glancing at the paper when all of a sudden something looked familiar. Then I realized it was the Sandpoint dateline. I am sending a clipping along."

The clipping was a four-column picture of the big catch of fish made November 30. The last day of the season.

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