Pike and pickerel fishing season is here! Have you made any historic catches yet? This proud angler is Henry H. Leis, “holding a 5 1/2 lb. pickerel fish he caught trolling on Lower Saranac Lake, August 1915.” Henry would have been about 8 years old in this photograph. He was the son of George and Marie Leis and became an amateur taxidermist later in life.
(Photo provided — Historic Saranac Lake Collection, gift of Marietta Leis Vogel. 2010.4.4)