Sixty years ago, a 12-year-old Syracuse boy named Don Dixon caught a spectacular brown trout in Fabius Brook.
Dixon received a Distinguished Angler’s Award from Sports Afield for the 4 lb 12 oz fish. He also got his picture in the Sunday paper.
The photo of Dixon—flaxen-haired, freckled, grinning from ear to hear—holding his trophy trout is pure Americana…