{"id":4834,"date":"2016-09-08T13:36:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T20:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.finditinlaveen.com\/?p=4834"},"modified":"2016-12-06T13:40:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T20:40:33","slug":"wittmann-wins-summer-trout-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finditinlaveen.com\/wittmann-wins-summer-trout-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Wittmann Wins Summer Trout Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"
This article<\/a> first appeared in the September issue of the South Mountain District News<\/a><\/p>\n From the time Bill Wittmann was a little boy he\u2019s been pretty much been obsessed with fishing. He spends most of his summers escaping the Valley heat to try his hand at various fishing locales near Greer. This article first appeared in the September issue of the South Mountain District News From the time Bill Wittmann was a little boy he\u2019s been pretty much been obsessed with fishing. He spends most of his summers escaping the Valley heat to try his hand at various fishing locales near Greer. This summer the longtime […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[161,160,253,236],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThis summer the longtime Laveen resident and his grandson netted themselves a pretty good catch in July. He hooked a 30-inch, 7 pound, 14 ounce, rainbow trout while fishing in the River Reservoir in Greer. The massive fish was 18 inches around.
\nWhile not a state record, it was good enough to win the state\u2019s July Trout Challenge. Wittman, 73, said the last time he was in the newspaper was when he was little boy and The Phoenix Gazette ran a picture of him with, you guessed it, a big fish he caught.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"