Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1881 — The Champion Fish Story. [ARTICLE]

The Champion Fish Story.

Au Eastern tourist had been spinning some incredible fish yarns, when one of the party, turning to an old mountaineer, said : “ Bill, that gets away with fishing in this country, don’t it ?” “ Wai, I don’t know ’bout that.” “Do you mean to say that you have caught more and larger fish ?” “ No; but I’ve caught some purty big fellers.” “ Come, now, tell us the weight of the largest trout you ever caught.” “Wai, I can’t exactly toll as to the weight, but you folks can figger on it. Now, you know it is over 200 miles around this yer lake. Put that down. As I said before, I don’t know the weight of the biggest trout I ever yanked out, but I did haul one up on the beach, and after I landed him the lake fell three feet, and you can see by that water-mark over yonder it hasn’t riz since.”— Nevada Journal.