Years ago, afore my back got messed up, I used ta fish a pool just shy a tha spawnin grounds on tha East Branch a tha Northwest Arm a tha Little Fork a the Main Southeast Mercedes. It fed The North Main Mercedes just upstream a tha Big Benz Pool. Never caught many fish. Couldn't! Me an Tete Rouge, the biggest damn Irish you ever seen useta try to catch a small one and hang it in a net from four inch diameter maple pools so's we'd have a pole on each shoulder ta get n out. One day, he got a big one on the line... swallowed the meat hook right into his gut so I had ta fill n with lead from my trusty Russian 12. Nearly ran outta slugs. Had ta fillet n on the spot an make four trips. Tete Rouge had ta hitch a ride ta get his three quarter ton on accounta poachers mighta stole the fish if I'da drove him home with my half ton.