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RP: Let's talk a little bit about your fishing adventures there in Manzanar. Where did you go out to fish?

RK: Oh, if we fished, we just went to George Creek or Shepherds Creek. That's about it.

RP: Did you, did you fish early, when, just after you just got to camp or was it later on that you...

RK: It was later on. Definitely later on.

RP: So...

RK: And after that there was no problem.

RP: You didn't have to sneak out at night?

RK: The guards, they almost let you go out. You didn't have to sneak out.

RP: So you went down to George Creek and --

RK: George, yeah.

RP: -- fished. Yeah. How, did you have, you said you had gone fishing up at, in the Lake Mary area or Mammoth.

RK: Oh, that was before we went to camp though.

RP: Did you have, did you have rod and reels and tackle that you brought up with you to camp?

RK: Well, we brought a few rod and reels, too.

RP: Did you?

RK: Yeah. We had our own.

RP: Uh-huh.

RK: And then we went to the canteen, the local store. They even sold it in there.

RP: Oh, they did?

RK: Sure.

RP: Uh-huh. So would you dig your own worms?

RK: We'd dig our own or buy salmon eggs or something, something like that.

RP: Uh-huh. So what did you catch? Did you catch Rainbows or...

RK: Brookies or...

RP: Brookies?

RK: Yeah. But the main thing we did in, was of course basketball, baseball, and card games, pinochle.

RP: Pinochle. [Laughs]

RK: That's what that's what consisted of our pastime. Pinochle, basketball, baseball.

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