Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1913 — Amos Alter Helped Land Big Fish in California. [ARTICLE]

Amos Alter Helped Land Big Fish in California.

Amos Alter, who with Steve Comer, is spending the winter at ' Santa Monica, Cal., wrote a letter to W. L. Wood, of Parr, last week, in which he enclosed a fish scale, which was about an inch one way and an inch and a quarter the other. Amos stated that it was from a rock bass that weighed 524 pounds. He did not catch It all by himself, but he helped another fellow pull it from the bay, which was quite an experience. Logan well knows the tendency of exaggeration indulged in by fishermen and also that it is a long ways between Rensselaer and California, but he says that he has unbounded confidence in the veracity of Amos and that the story can her relied upon as a yard wide.