LYLE M. ROBERTSON

Back in 1970, I was a beginning steelhead fisherman. I held my spinning reel upside down. I was at Battle Creek one day, fishing the same run as Lyle, John Spencer and other experts. A Redding TV station filmed me catching the only steelhead of the morning. That evening, the broadcast showed me in action and said: "Here's Lyle Robertson of Red Bluff landing a steelie." I accused Lyle of stealing my fame; he said: "I should sue you for impersonating a fisherman."