DEAN CURTIS FOR LIVING WELL Lemon cheesecake is one of the featured desserts at DeVito's Restaurant in Harrison.


The DeVito’s had five children — four boys and one girl — so retirement was not an option.


Mary’s father had been raising trout since 1950, and he gave the couple a trout farm to operate with Mary’s brother, Gene Raney. The DeVitos moved to Harrison and built the Bear Creek Springs Trout Farm into a thriving business. It was located right off U.S. 65.


DEAN CURTIS FOR LIVING WELL


DeVito's Restaurant in Harrison features dishes with freshly caught trout. Roasted red pepper and garlic trout is one of the featured dishes.


10 Living Well i August/November 2016


Stocked with rainbow trout, Bear Creek Springs is a cave-fed spring where families and fisherman would come spend the day.


Their sons grew up in the business:


They would bait the fish, help with tackle and then clean the customer’s catch.


In its heyday, people would be lined up shoulder-to-shoulder fishing for trout, but that was before 1982 when U.S. 65 was moved about a quarter of a mile and bypassed their business, said Chris.


The business took a huge hit.


So in 1986, Jim DeVito decided to live his lifelong dream of opening a restaurant. As the oldest of 11 children, Jim DeVito came from a long line of Italian cooks, and


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