Fishing on Pibel Lake

ID: 454 ~ Source: Nebraska State Historical Society, RG3542.PH000131-000003 ~ Date: 1920 circa
This file appears in: Pibel Lake Recreation Area
Fishing on Pibel Lake
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"Fishing on Pibel Lake, Nebraska, No. 6258." is the caption for this joke postcard. A man is flipped on his back in his boat while landing a pike larger than himself.

This file appears in: Pibel Lake Recreation Area

By The Explore Nebraska History team
Pibel Lake grew out of an 1897-1898 irrigation claim for water rights by Edwin Pibel, called Clear Creek Ditch. Three years earlier, a diversion dam had been placed across the creek to form a lake, but the irrigation ditch was eventually abandoned…