How the west was won: a success story

Sports Illustrated is probably known to most as the magazine that publishes the famous annual swimsuit issue with the most fabulous women on earth. But they also seem to cover more than just chicks in bikini's.

Like this article from the April 30, 1956 issue about the successful introductory of the brown trout in America.

The story starts with a shipment of 80,000 fertilized brown trout eggs from Germany in February 24, 1883.

The start was quite bumpy as fishermen considered the brown trout was an inferior spices that just wasn't was easy to catch as the native brook or rainbow trout.

As the Fish and Game commission from Montana said: "The brown trout is a good fish, but the average fisherman is not skilled enough to catch it."